Talk:Guy Ledford/@comment-36277500-20190928174625

I had no high hopes for this book (daughter was only reason I touched it), but I hoped it would at least avoid the worst cliches... like douchebag ex. I just hoped that he would be barely mentioned, but wouldn't physically exist in the game.

Pixelberry shows total ignorance of human psychology. Everything was totally okay before? He was an angel, then suddenly became devil instead? No red alarm signs before? Main Character wore a blindfold or what? If someone is immature diva from third-rated opera, they must have been that way from the start!

It's not that abusive partner doesn't show their true colours before marriage. They show signs that something is wrong with them (like drinking too much, or being violent... at first rarely and with apology), but their partner naively thinks that they can change him/her. I was dealing with such people during PTSD group therapy.

And the most painful... Sudden, furtive marriage because of pregnancy, while both were practically kids who apparently barely knew each other. I knew such couples, and most of them aren't couples anymore, or are constantly fighting. The saddest thing is that it's supposed to be marriage "for child's own good", and then child becomes the most suffering one. Nevermind anyway... This is a real problem, so I understand why author used this motive (due to plain laziness - divorces are caused by many different reasons, but "bad guy & good gal" was the easiest).

Thing that I don't understand is calling two nearly total strangers "soulmates". If the partners don't know each other for real, then there is no depth, no soul mating, but just two casual people connected only by physical intimacy. Bed-mates, sex-friends, but never soul-mates!

Every time when I think that Pixelberry reached the bottom, they prove that they are able to sink even deeper.