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8 of the Most Messed-Up Relationships in Literature

Some fictional romances give us an ideal to aspire to—a reason to keep trudging through the depressing real-life swampland of bad Tinder dates and unanswered texts in the hopes that our very own Mr. Darcy is right around the corner, although I’m more of a Captain Wentworth girl myself. (There’s nothing sexier than a man who writes you a love letter and then immediately leaves the room. Change my mind.) 

So some fictional relationships are very good. Wonderful, even. Others? Well, others are a cautionary tale of what happens when you have the audacity to hold another person’s hand. The following, as you can probably tell, are those relationships.


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