AshleighWilkes2222

Hello. I'm Ashleigh Wilkes. I started writing because I was appalled at the deluge of books here that glossed over cheating and abuse --- physical, verbal and emotional --- and had the bafflingly "kind" female leads forgive these heinous monsters only too willingly and too easily. Bizzarely, these cheaters with their "Greek God-like" looks only had to wink or smirk --- or do both --- and the female leads would dissolve into a pile of salivating, mindless jelly, and all the humiliation and abuse she had been subjected to wouldn't matter. Blink, and behold: she's in bed with the abuser faster than you can say P A T H E T I C.
          
          We women are not weak and spineless. We are not toys to be broken, or doormats to be trampled on.
          
          We women are strong, brave and beautiful.
          
          Stripping a female protagonist of her pride and dignity in a book renders her a caricature, a mere thing, and not a woman.  
          
          A woman deserves respect. A woman deserves loyalty. A woman deserves fidelity.
          
          My books were plagarised and I deleted my account. It took me a long time to come back. I wrote a new book, I Still Love You But, and rewrote Karma, my very first book. I am rewriting Paper Wife and it is ongoing.
          
          Thank you for reading this.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/285731070-karma

MissJ2713

@AshleighWilkes2222 
            
            Hey Ashleigh, thanks for letting me know about your book (Karma) the blurb sounds great and I have saved it in my reading list (also saved your other book (I still love you but) happy to see both  have been completed so I will begin reading them once I finish off the couple of open stories I have going, this way I can focus on one or maybe 2 stories at a time.
            
            I will be honest, I've read some stories on here where the victim goes back to the abuser but the victim doesn't mention anything about the abuse, a simple apology won't do, so I understand the frustration when abuse issues are glossed over, or the victim forgives the abuser too easily. 
            
            I think I can safely say most of the books I've read there's always smirks, winks and the guys are like Greek God's. 
            
            I have to admit too there seems to be so many abuse stories, it's crazy...of course I expect drama but damn. There was one story on another app that - for the first time I actually didn't finish it, I chose to stop reading it, the abuse was crazy, and it was too much, I knew I wouldn't finish it, so I ended up checking the ending, I was curious and she got back with the guy who hurt her, I could not believe it.
            
            I love a good book/story with a strong woman, even better when she can be sassy too, not taking crap from anyone. I actually just finished a book today where the woman didn't take crap from her future husband when they first crossed path's despite him being a douche but she told her ex husband exactly why she would never give him another chance and it was awesome.
            
            Sorry to hear your books were plagiarised, it really annoys me to no end when someone's hard work/story is stolen by someone else, I usually report this as much as I can.
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YeshikaSahu

My apologies for sliding into your Conversations board uninvited.
          I just wanted to grab your attention to my stories. There is an arranged marriage story, a teen romance, a young adult, and some mafia stories. They are all COMPLETED.
          Once again, I'm sorry for intruding.
           Have a nice day ahead.!!!!
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/239672415-mafia-miss-honey

YeshikaSahu

@MissJ2713 Thank you
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MissJ2713

@YeshikaSahu Hey, I have kept an eye on your story and now that I see it has been completed I have added it to my library and will begin reading it soon, I just want to finish off the few stories I have open at the moment that way I can focus on one story at a time  Thank you for telling me about your story Mafia and Miss Honey, the blurb sounds really good and I can't wait to begin reading!
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