"Note to authors: please stop claiming that the MMC is in love with the FMC "all his life" when, in reality, his actions are mentally abusive.

Using an embarrassing nickname for her that she hates and that is steeped in an embarrassing or shameful story? That's just bullying. If that is how he treats the only girl he ever loved then she needs to run from him.

Having him be a playboy womanizer with a reputation in a small town? Just. Fucking. Stop. So they get together and have their HEA and spent their marriage and retirement years in a town where everybody in your peer group has seen/experienced him naked? WHY IS THIS ROMANTIC???

I'm going to DNF but I just needed to make this note for myself that this author and I don't agree on what romance truly is."