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You're speaking too much sense, Susan. This can be a dangerous thing indeed 😂

You're right! Putting on my blinders again. 😂

My mother stayed with my father until she died despite him being an ass. 🤷‍♀️ I think it was a lot of the Catholic beat into her that divorce was never an option.

I totally get that relationships were different for the older generation. Especially the idea of divorce.
But I often feel it's a trope often used in M/M. And not always very realistically done.
Like the mom is kind and super accepting of all gay people, while the father was a homophobe who treated his kids like shit. And still the mom stayed with him til the father died and never says a bad word about her dead husband.

I've seen this exact same trope used in a lot of books and it's often to emphasise the trauma of the MC, while still making sure he has a loving mother left. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. 🤔

Susan wrote: "I totally get that relationships were different for the older generation. Especially the idea of divorce.
But I often feel it's a trope often used in M/M. And not always very realistically done.
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I get what you're saying, and agree.