_Unknown_The_Better_

I have a genuine doubt.
          	
          	Why are most female leads on Wattpad portrayed as being in their early 20s when they get married to the male lead? (APPLIED MOSTLY FOR THE DESI STORIES)
          	
          	Is this something authors intentionally choose, or could it reflect underlying social conditioning or narrative norms?
          	
          	I understand that this age is legally acceptable, but shouldn’t this stage of life be more focused on education, personal growth, or career development rather than marriage?
          	
          	It should have been okay if this age of fls are seen for just one book or two but no MOST OF THE BOOK have the same age for fls while most mls are 25+ 
          	
          	To any authors reading this—why is this such a common pattern? I’d really appreciate your perspective and insight.

AUselessBish

@_Unknown_The_Better_ Agreed. It's so weird that fls have to be in their early 20s while the mls are 35 yr olds. Like why not a 35 year old Fl who's a successful independent woman, well settled and has achieved most of her goals?? Seen this trope mostly in arrange marriage romance . Arrange marriage in a general is boring . Same copy paste stories except a few. 
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Afroz_writes

@_Unknown_The_Better_ I hate it too, but what to do now? It's the only platform where it's possible to get your stories to reach people more easily. But it's frustrating too. Like, I've been writing books for a long time now, and even made an author's account, and yet my stories barely cross 1k reads. I've been writing this particular story for quite some time now, and it doesn't have a single comment yet. And when you ask people to take a look, they'll probably just vote for the sake of it and not read the chapters at all. At least, that's what I think :(
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Afroz_writes

@_Unknown_The_Better_ again, because of the popular tags here. What's popular sells the best. It's a sad reality but it's the truth. Wattpad mostly promotes romance stories and most romance stories, especially Desi ones, always have couples with huge age gaps. Tbh I don't mind age gaps stories all that much, but I have a problem when the girl is 18 and the man is 28 or 38. Like, wtf are y'all doing pairing a literal fresh adult with a man who's old enough to be her dad??? That's freaking weird
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HaSh_browwn

Hey ! How was THE UNEXPECTED GUEST..like is that about cheating or some major misunderstanding ? Did you like this story ?

_Unknown_The_Better_

@HaSh_browwn Second chances after misunderstanding but its quite reasonable one. I liked the book. Not the usual plots we read here
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janv_isingh

heyy can u please recommend me some good single parents book i can't find any..

janv_isingh

@_Unknown_The_Better_ okayy that will be so sweet of u thanku for taking out ur time to select book for me<3
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janv_isingh

@_Unknown_The_Better_ ik sweetheart u don't promote such things I'm also strictly against them that's why I came to ask u for recommendation 
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janv_isingh

heyyy, u have read shattered vows right? so can u tell me if there's any character development of the main leads I don't want to waste my time.

janv_isingh

@_Unknown_The_Better_ oh no it's totally fine no need to be sorry i would have loved to know ur views on it and I'm pretty sure u would have hated both the main leads of the story so it's fine I'm not continuing it
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_Unknown_The_Better_

@janv_isingh I am so so so sorry but I dont remember the plott. I would have informed if Ik even a bit of the plot but I dont. I am sorry
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Afroz_writes

https://www.wattpad.com/story/406601680?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details_button&wp_uname=Afroz_writes
          
          I'm sorry for posting this unannounced, but I'm writing a new story with a different type of plot that is usually not shown on this platform. The female character is Bangladeshi and the male character is Italian and the story is in male dominant POV for the most part. Now, as for the ending...it's up to you whether or not you think of it as an appropriate ending because it is complicated. I hope you'll give my story a try ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

_Unknown_The_Better_

I have a genuine doubt.
          
          Why are most female leads on Wattpad portrayed as being in their early 20s when they get married to the male lead? (APPLIED MOSTLY FOR THE DESI STORIES)
          
          Is this something authors intentionally choose, or could it reflect underlying social conditioning or narrative norms?
          
          I understand that this age is legally acceptable, but shouldn’t this stage of life be more focused on education, personal growth, or career development rather than marriage?
          
          It should have been okay if this age of fls are seen for just one book or two but no MOST OF THE BOOK have the same age for fls while most mls are 25+ 
          
          To any authors reading this—why is this such a common pattern? I’d really appreciate your perspective and insight.

AUselessBish

@_Unknown_The_Better_ Agreed. It's so weird that fls have to be in their early 20s while the mls are 35 yr olds. Like why not a 35 year old Fl who's a successful independent woman, well settled and has achieved most of her goals?? Seen this trope mostly in arrange marriage romance . Arrange marriage in a general is boring . Same copy paste stories except a few. 
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Afroz_writes

@_Unknown_The_Better_ I hate it too, but what to do now? It's the only platform where it's possible to get your stories to reach people more easily. But it's frustrating too. Like, I've been writing books for a long time now, and even made an author's account, and yet my stories barely cross 1k reads. I've been writing this particular story for quite some time now, and it doesn't have a single comment yet. And when you ask people to take a look, they'll probably just vote for the sake of it and not read the chapters at all. At least, that's what I think :(
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Afroz_writes

@_Unknown_The_Better_ again, because of the popular tags here. What's popular sells the best. It's a sad reality but it's the truth. Wattpad mostly promotes romance stories and most romance stories, especially Desi ones, always have couples with huge age gaps. Tbh I don't mind age gaps stories all that much, but I have a problem when the girl is 18 and the man is 28 or 38. Like, wtf are y'all doing pairing a literal fresh adult with a man who's old enough to be her dad??? That's freaking weird
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HaSh_browwn

Hey ! I am not so active here rn. But after seeing your vote notification on Aurous Charms, I had to come here. Idk if you remember or not, but I once had a convo in my msg board where I wrote something about getting really depressed after reading a story which made me trigger to any book which includes cheating. And this is that story.
          So, I hope you read it with caution and please bash that Yash as much as you can. I just hate him.

HaSh_browwn

@_Unknown_The_Better_ Yea..I mean.. At first even I skipped those chapters from past scenes and read only those chapters in which Shlok is present, but my curiosity caught me off and then I ended up reading it from start. It kinda shook my belief in everything. But yes, it's better to just forget it and remove the existence of such people from our mind.
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_Unknown_The_Better_

@HaSh_browwn Understandable. The past in the book is INDEED terrifying 
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_Unknown_The_Better_

@HaSh_browwn Ohhhhh I see.I HATE THE EX HUSBAND. BASTARD. PERIOD! I am all in foe the book for SHLOK. 
            The thing was that I never read those chapter which had the moments of the fl with her ex husband as I already knew he was a cheater I dont want to know ANYTHING about him. I read the book solely for SHLOK. So thankfully the book has not triggered me, till now(Ik the main reason being my deliberate skipping of the some chapters)
            
            Anyway thanks for sharing this and yes I can understand how it had been a reason to trigger you cause that's fl had been with the other guy for years and THAT MF STILL CHEATED like...*lets just not go down that lane for him*
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_Unknown_The_Better_

Among all the unnecessary updates in watpadd now it shows who votes for whom too.

HaSh_browwn

@_Unknown_The_Better_ I have already tried books outside this platform, like soft copies of published books by some famous English authors..but they disappointed me a lot. Wattpad has a variety of good books, but those are really underrated..so it's difficult to find em.
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HaSh_browwn

@_Unknown_The_Better_Some readers told me about that messaging option, but I never got to experience it. But it seemed to be a really amazing one, I feel.
            Also, you are absolutely correct about the recommendations in top 10. When I first came on wattpad, it was though for me to pick up a book and read it, so I went with the top 10 or really popular ones. And a lot of those were so so bad. That I actually regret reading them and idk how can someone even write something like that.
            
            But recently, ig last week the top 10 in India had the three top three books which I have read and they seemed good.
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avaiscool

Hey gorgeous, I think we had a big misunderstanding, It really doesn't affect me usually but you seemed very offended by my comment and I don't want a girl to hate me because of a misunderstanding can we clear it out please ☹️

_Unknown_The_Better_

@avaiscool Wtf! I have seen those hate comments too. Well we all know the hate is not gonna stop the BADDIE so let them bark. This is what I was saying...in real life I am at a point where I lost the hope of people being nice to each other...especially to women irl but I have a little hope in readers community but when I see people blindly blaming fls for lamest thing thats where I lose my sh!t! I ain't saying women are right everywhere...HERE RIYA'S CASE IF SHE HAD DONE IT INTENTIONALLY THEN WHAT SHE DID IS BAD NO DOUBT...but yk that wasn't mentioned in the SAID BOOK. And thats why I got triggered with your comment. I have blamed fls but only after I tried till the last ounce of my ability to understand her. But here mostly that isnt the case...people blame fls blindly and then they cry about men irl blaming women and call themselves girl's girl...I ain't saying this cause of your comment but in general. If you notice this pattern of some girlies you'll understand too, in this app
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avaiscool

Yeah me too, I swear I have the memory of a gold fish like I'm not joking when I say this, I wrote 12 march 2024 on my test and it was 19 March 2026. Ignore the year cuz ever since highscool started I never kept track of the year but the date gurl, I was living a week back(ToT)
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avaiscool

Yeah I get it, no I had read her point of view on her book and I knew she did it intentionally 
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