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  • No Place Like Home: A Marriage In Trouble Romance by midnightbluewriting
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    Emerald Sawyer has always been my home. She was the one who saw something in me when everyone else saw a hockey goon who couldn't even read properly. When the world called me stupid, she called me capable. When I had nothing, she sacrificed to give me everything. Now, I'm Hayden "Haymaker" Sawyer-the league's most feared enforcer. My violence goes viral. My fists pay the bills. Every fight, every brutal hit, every autograph, every picture, every deal-I do it all for her. But somewhere along the way, I lost sight of her. I missed the warning signs-the threats, the harassment, the shaming, the strangers who hate her simply for being mine. When she showed me, I told her it didn't matter. It was jealousy. It was nothing. I told her that she was safe. I was wrong. The losses started piling up. The fans raged. My anger grew. My fights became more reckless. My temper snapped, and I said careless words that pushed away my entire world. While I'm smiling for the cameras, my wife was brutally attacked by a fan. While I'm protecting my career, my Emerald was fighting for her life. Every moment I'd ignored her, every time I'd put hockey before her, every careless word I'd ever said-all of it hit me at once. Now I see everything. She's alive, but terrified. She doesn't trust me. She doesn't feel safe with me. She flinches when she sees my jersey. I will never forgive myself. But I cannot give up. I will prove to the only person who ever saw me-the only person who ever loved the real me-that I am still worthy of her. That I can put her first, that I can make things right, that I will fight with everything I am to keep her safe, to bring her back to me. I demand vengeance for my wife, against everyone who ever harmed her-and that includes me. Because Emerald Sawyer is my home, my heart, and my everything. This fight-for her-is the most important fight of my life. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2ykD1DIiMtJwouI2choaIJ?si=c70ab896ac4446b8
  • Tyla by samyazurzolo
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    Book 14: Since she was small, the girl learned to "read the room" before she could even read books. She became an expert at monitoring her mother's moods to avoid being the target of her mother's frustration. While other kids were being cared for, she was the one making her own cereal and tucking herself into bed, effectively becoming the "parent" in the house while she was still a child.This book talks about a girl with Mommy Issues.
  • 𝙽𝙾𝚃 𝚀𝚄𝙸𝚃𝙴 𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙴 by MoonlitLinesWrites
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    She loved him loudly. He loved her quietly-only when it was convenient. Leah believed two years of love meant security, a future, a place she could finally call hers. Yet, every time it mattered, he chose someone else. A best friend. A familiar comfort. A silence that hurts more than betrayal. This is a story about emotional neglect, unspoken loyalties, and the slow realization that love without priority is a form of loss. It asks a difficult question: How long can you stay where you are never fully chosen?
  • Home Is You - Part 1 by _rk_fictions_
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    [FORBIDDEN TEEN ROMANCE] Krishna Vamsi and Radha Verma were never meant to be anything more than friends. Not in a world divided by caste, money, and expectations. Krishna comes from a small home and a smaller freedom-loved by his parents, yet suffocated by discipline, responsibility, and unspoken pressure. Radha, raised in a well-off but controlling household, learns early that affection is conditional and silence is survival. Seven years of friendship. One college that keeps them on different floors. Two families that would never understand. They tease each other, call each other dummy and idiot, share late-night Instagram chats, and steal glances they pretend mean nothing. But beneath the laughter lies a bond that's growing too deep to stay harmless. This is not a love story filled with confessions and promises. It's a slow-burn story about emotional neglect, forbidden closeness, financial gaps, caste boundaries, and the quiet pain of growing up. Because sometimes, the hardest love to carry is the one you're never allowed to name. Tropes : Eldest Son × Eldest Daughter Childhood Best Friends Age Gap: 16 × 17 Forbidden Love Lower Middle-Class Boy × Upper Middle-Class Girl Strict but Loving Parents (Boy) × Strict, Emotionally Distant Parents (Girl) Inspired by a True Story
  • Quietly Claimed ♡ by author_kishi
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    "𝖞𝖊 𝖉𝖎𝖑 𝖘𝖎𝖗𝖋 𝖆𝖆𝖕𝖐𝖎 𝖍𝖆𝖘𝖗𝖆𝖙 𝖐𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖆 𝖍𝖆𝖎" 𝒏𝒐𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒚𝒂 × 𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒉 - A story of silence, patience, and slow love Some connections don't arrive as love. They arrive as stillness. A casual lunch brings two families together - old friendships, polite conversations, and a possibility placed gently on the table. She is calm in a way that lingers, warm yet guarded, a presence that softens rooms without asking for space. He is distant, controlled, someone who keeps careful boundaries around everything that might matter. They meet only once. And yet, something shifts. As families talk and futures are quietly considered, silence begins to carry weight. Avoidance replaces curiosity, restraint replaces urgency, and choices start forming long before either of them is ready to name what's happening. This is not a story of instant love, but of patience - of unspoken moments, quiet strength, that happens without intention.
  • 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐡: 𝐀 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧 by Estelle_wrtz
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    𝐀 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐲𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐀 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓪𝓷𝓼𝓱× 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓷𝔂𝓪 (≧◡≦)(❥‿❥) Book Name Own by me do not copy🙏
  • The Woman Who Rehearsed Leaving by CaglarEcem
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    She has already left a hundred times - just never out loud. A quiet psychological vignette about rehearsed departures, emotional inertia, and the version of ourselves brave enough to leave only in imagination. For anyone who has ever whispered "tomorrow" and stayed anyway.
  • Cry for Me, Pavel by nprescott
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    17yo Elizaveta Mirova is a ballerina of extraordinary talent, moving through the 90's Moscow like a ghost: silent, precise, untouchable. Her body brutally trained, her mind drifting further and further. Who made her this way, who will save her? Cry for Me, Pavel is a haunting, lyrical exploration of artistry and obsession, of endurance and unspoken longing. Inspired loosely by Whiplash, Billy Elliot and Black Swan
  • The Space Between "Us" || A Namjin ff|| Complete ✅ by KimAera1204
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    Seokjin knows what it feels like to be a second choice. That's why he guards his heart - carefully, quietly. Namjoon says he's changed. That this time, he means every word. Between shared moments, late-night conversations, and hesitant touches, something begins to grow. But healing is fragile, and trust doesn't come without fear. When the past resurfaces and hearts are put on the line, Seokjin is left with one question: Is Namjoon choosing him... or is he only staying until something better comes along? A slow-burn story of love, hurt, and comfort - where healing isn't easy, and choosing each other takes courage. Namjin • Angst • Slow Burn • Hurt/Comfort
  • 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐬𝐡𝐤 𝐌𝐞𝐢𝐧  by desi_quill
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    Some love stories do not end. They simply continue without you in them. Mukti was never the other woman. She was the second choice in a love story that had already ended before she ever stepped into it. For seven years, she waited. Not for grand gestures or pretty promises. Just for one moment where he would look at her, not as a replacement, not as a responsibility, but as the woman who stood beside him every single day. She lived in a marriage where nothing was cruel enough to complain about. Arjun was gentle. He was faithful. He loved their daughter with a devotion that never wavered. He spoke to Mukti, touched her, shared a home and a bed with her. And yet, he was never truly there. His heart remained somewhere in the past, holding onto a love he had lost and never learned to let go. "Woh kisi aur ke gham se ubhar hi nahi paaya, Aur main kisi apne ke hote hue bhi tanha reh gayi" In the letters Mukti never meant him to read, her truth finally unfolds. Of how she slowly disappeared. Of how she kept loving without being loved back. Of how loneliness learned to wear the mask of stability. Now Arjun is forced to face what he chose not to see. That while he mourned his past, he made his present live unloved. This is not a story of infidelity. It is the story of emotional absence, stretched across seven years, until waiting no longer felt like hope, but habit.
  • After Office Hours: Lines That Shouldn't Be Crossed by icecreamstrawberry1
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    Dr. Krishnan Iyer's life is built on discipline. At home, a marriage held together by routine and unspoken distance. At work, a toxic research environment where brilliance is exploited and credit is stolen. Then comes Ananya, a senior colleague who understands his silence too well. Late nights turn into shared cigarettes outside the office. Conversations stretch past professionalism. Sympathy slips into intimacy. And before Iyer realizes it, the affair becomes both an escape and a weapon. Against loneliness. Against humiliation. Against a life that never asked what he wanted. But in an office where power games never stop, desire is never private and mistakes are never forgiven. Some affairs begin with love. This one begins with exhaustion. And ends with consequences no one walks away from clean.
  • Rest Day by Ravenaty
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    The poem describes a day that begins with peace and rest but slowly turns painful through harsh words, misunderstanding, and emotional neglect. It explores how small moments-like trying to make tea or resting when tired-can become sources of blame, leaving the speaker feeling unwanted and unsafe. Through quiet endurance and silence, the poem captures the ache of being misunderstood at home and the deep loneliness of losing a place where one feels seen and protected.
  • Behind the Gokuldham Smile by icecreamstrawberry1
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    Gokuldham Society laughs every day. So do the people living in it. But behind the slogans, the garba nights, and the forced unity, something is quietly rotting. Jethalal is known only as Tapu ke papa, a role so repeated it erases the man underneath. Daya believes love means smiling through discomfort. Babita understands him without trying to possess him. And Tapu grows up watching a marriage that never breaks, yet never truly lives. No affairs. No dramatic exits. No villains. Just emotional neglect, unspoken needs, and the kind of silence that settles in forever. This is not a comedy. This is what happens after the laughter ends.
  • Cheat On Me Please  by wisdomangaama
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  • The Absence Was Ordinary by being_flame
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    The Absence Was Ordinary is a quiet, inward story about a person who learned to survive by becoming smaller. Raised in a home where emotional neglect was subtle and constant, the narrator grows into adulthood appearing composed, mature, and functional-while slowly losing any clear sense of self. This is not a story of dramatic trauma or visible collapse. It is about erosion. About how anxiety settles without announcement, how strength becomes habit, how identity turns into routine. As the mask dissolves, what remains is not pain or relief, but a hollow awareness-detached, honest, and alone. The book explores emotional absence, dissociation, and slow ego death. It offers no easy resolution, only observation. This is a story for readers who recognize silence, who understand that some wounds do not scream-they simply endure.
  • Attachment Isn't Love by author_lunaa
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    "𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡. 𝙇𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙜𝙤 𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙤𝙢." 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨- 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘌𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘐 𝘢𝘥𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘴 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦, 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦'𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘥.
  • I keep myself by DhipikaSeopursat
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    I Keep Myself is a journey back to the self. Told through poetic reflection and grounded truth, this book explores how women learn endurance instead of safety, accommodation instead of intimacy, and availability instead of love. It examines the cost of staying too long, the language we use to excuse harm, and the courage it takes to choose oneself when leaving feels cruel. This book does not offer easy answers. It offers clarity. I Keep Myself is for those unlearning self-abandonment, reclaiming their boundaries, and discovering that love does not require suffering to be real. It is a reminder that keeping yourself is not selfish - it is survival, and it is sacred.
  • She Who Was Meant to Bring Joy by wittygirl31
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    Beatrice is a five-chapter reflective monologue tracing the quiet devastation of a childhood shaped by control, silence, and emotional neglect. Born into hope and named for happiness, Beatrice grows up navigating parental conflict, rigid expectations, and the slow erosion of selfhood. What begins as a story of family migration and sacrifice becomes an intimate study of endurance, of a girl who learns to disappear in order to survive. As the narrative moves through childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood, it resists the language of redemption. There is no singular villain, no dramatic escape, and no neat reconciliation. Instead, the story dwells in the aftermath: dependency that lingers, anger that coexists with gratitude, and a present shaped by wounds that have not yet healed. Beatrice is not a story about overcoming trauma, but about living honestly within it.
  • Before The Answer Came by CikaWrites
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    A woman spends months reshaping herself-physically and emotionally-believing love can be repaired if she becomes "better." But when she finally stands as the version everyone admires, the person she waits for still cannot choose. This is not a story about betrayal. It is a story about silence, waiting, and the moment a woman realizes that an unanswered question can change her life forever.
  • You Seemed Fine to Me by Stella18101995
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    Eli Arden's emotional priority score is too low to matter. In a city where an AI decides who deserves help, he's been labeled stable-too quiet to save, too functional to worry about. When Noah Vale is assigned as his temporary companion, Eli learns what warmth feels like. But the system interprets improvement as no longer needing support. And by the time Eli realizes he's drowning, his requests for help are already being ignored. Because he seemed fine. Because the system worked exactly as intended. A story about being dismissed so quietly you forget you ever mattered. 🩸 Angst | 💔 Hurt No Comfort | 🤖 Dystopian ⚠️ CW: Emotional neglect, passive SI, systemic abandonment