to really want a Twilight style romance?

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I know I am! I'm not a soppy teen fgs!

But I'm watching twilight and I want to be worshipped and adored and stalked by a sex god.

Argh I would even make do with a LITTLE romance!

As adults we can read this trash and take it for what it is (utter anti-feminist crap) but teenagers reading it are lead to believe this highly a abusive relationship is romantic.

FFS its a fantasy about vampires and wearwolves. The end. Bella is playing two guys off against each other the whole way through. Edeard is protective over her because she is human and therfore mortal. When she becomes a vampire she is the strongest and there is no control then. People need to stop reading into things so much or at least read them as they are!

kelly I have read them as they are.

I worry for young impressionable girls who think that is love. Like my youngest cousin does. She thinks her bf loves her when he stops her seeing her friend because he thinks they are trouble.

Etc. The books are shit, anti feminst and badly written and portray contolling behaviour as love.

But would a really abusive man leave a woman for her safety and stand back while she makes her choice between him and another man?? Ther are just too many contradictions for it to be read as and abusive relationship. An unhealthy relationship on both sides maybe but not just Bella being wronged.

Yes an emotionally abusive person often does disappear. Then turn up again, as he was planning on doing. Leaving is often a way of further abusing a partner.
No one said it was all on his side. As pp said the answer have been in response to the op.

All the relationships in the book are awful that's the point. And that's why an adult shouldn't want a relationship based on that.

Fair enough if you are seeing it on both sides but as I said previously - this is not a real life context. It is clear in the film he is leaving because he fears for her mortal life if she stays with him. Not some abuser who is playing mind games. His pain at leaving is also clearly shown in the film and the book. Its all about context. The scenario you just described clearly does not apply to this novel.