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** spoiler alert ** Am I unforgiving or are characters too forgiving? 🤔

Can I have one second chance story where the man doesn’t waltz back in after a billion years and decide him and the FMC are back on and that’s that??

Ford didn’t impress me much. He was pushy one minute and then avoiding her when he shouldn’t be the next.

Ok so from Millie’s POV: She meets Ford in college. She likes him, but he starts dating her roommate that used to be her friend but now hates her. Millie becomes best friends with Ford for years, watching him date this girl. He finally breaks up with said girl. Him and Millie have feelings for each other. They kiss�.He then ghosts her, completely, and she finds out the ex is pregnant, and he marries that ex. (For some reason, I thought that he had a gf before meeting her. The fact that it was the same time as they met made it much worse to me.)

After *one* talk about him explaining his reasoning, Millie forgives him instantly and says there’s no more pain. After him ghosting her for 10 YEARS!

I get that Ford was young and scared of losing access to his child, but he could’ve had the decency to talk to Millie at least *once* before cutting her out. She didn’t do anything wrong. Instead he marries the ex and has a bad relationship for years� which maybe he should’ve realized sooner that they didn’t need to be married to have a good life for his daughter??

But anyway. I was ecstatic Millie did date in the time apart, but of course, no one measured up. Still, I did love Ford being jealous, serves him right.

So Millie has a good career and doesn’t want to risk it by dating Ford. She seemingly won’t date him, but every time he comes within 2 feet of her, she loses all her resolve. And when he is assertive that they’re not just friends she finally tells him she’s scared he’ll hurt her - he storms away angrily and doesn’t talk to her for days. Instead of hearing her justified worries, and reassuring her like he should be after a decade?? And then SHE apologizes to him. Ok. Later on, her ex kisses her against her will? Once again, she’s apologizing. When they take a “pause� because she needs time before she thinks she’ll lose her job? She goes back to him, again.

The rest of the plot just didn’t interest me. Ford, in my opinion, did nothing to deserve her except reappear in her life (by accident, by the way- he never sought her out). I didn’t have a good sense of Millie’s character except liking sports and turning to mush when Ford’s around. They skipped a month of their secret dating so I didn’t feel that invested in it when they took a “pause.� Because it’s secret I didn’t even feel satisfied - she basically just goes over his house at night and they’re in love again?

Maybe it’s just my mood. The writing wasn’t bad, and I did read to the end! But I didn’t feel like these two had much chemistry and Millie was too doormat-ish for my taste.