Thank you! I think so too.
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Of course!! I’m just stating facts. Abuse is not okay. I’ve seen my mom go through an abusive relationship, and that was definitely not pretty.
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I am sprry to hear that, hope she is doing okay now!.
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She is! Thanks for your concern. It’s been like a good three years since she’s been out of that relationship.
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Preachhhhh. 
I’m a firm believer that not all stories have to have good morals at their core, but all stories for young people should. I know I was pretty impressionable when I was young. This app is marketed to young teen girls, so everything on it should be, at worst, a tiny bit spicy, exciting, or scary, but nothing that could damage their perception of reality and what’s good vs bad (not as simple as it may seem in some cases). Young people may need a little help with this kind of thing, sticking to stories that are somewhat realistic and treating bad things like, well, bad things. Making sure that risky actions are shown with their appropriate consequences, and downright bad actions are shown in a bad light. Take notes, Episode… coughcough.
Like, if you wanna write a dark story where the MC loses their moral compass and delights in the ecstasy of evil without an upward arc, go on. But not on an app for young people. I can think of at least one story, probably more, that would be downright concerning if I didn’t know they were written by teen girls.
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As you can see. It’s AGAINST THE GUIDELINES.
Technically emotional abuse isn’t mentioned but for me anyone whp glorifies emotional abuse is like glorifying abuse in general, so.
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Woohoo.
Goof for her! She dewserves healthy relationships.
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Exactly!! We can’t have these teen girls thinking abuse is okay. Guys get abused too, but I’ve only ever saw stories about females getting abused.
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She does!! Everyone does!
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This is a fact, not an opinion.
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I agree.
I mean, the thing that I believe affects mostly a young person is the "love " the abusive character/relationship may receive.
Trust me, I am still young and some times storoes with subtle abuse are so normalized that I literally can’t tell if it’s a toxic relationship or not. Usially, I would get affected by people shilping the characters, commenting ONLY on the cute moments and I was brainwashed into believing that it was a healthy relationship.
If someone wants to write a darker story, I am not against it, if it respects all the gudelines, put on the description and the title, the age that is required to rrad the story but sknce the younger audience can still read them regardless, keep it clean and for god’s sake, don’t glorify anything.
I get that it’s a bit restricting since it’s an app for 13+, but still has quote a few people thst range frkm 16-18 so at least they should be super respectful of thr guidelines.
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True, in fact I have talked about this on another post “MC’s that are hypocrites” where men get sexually harassed/assaulted by mean girls and the MC is relieved that he doesn’t like the mean girl and not caring about the fact that the boy was assaulted. Stupid.
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Exactly!
It’a hard. Espeially if they are being manipulated. Some of them don’t even understand soon emough that theu are in an abusive relationship.
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Yea. I deleted my comment, bc I realized that.
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I get your point. I personnaly don’t feel bad reading those kind of stories - but I know this is because I already am aware of how it shouldn’t happen in real life. Writing about an abusive relationship can be okay to me - glorifying it is not. If you write down the eyes of the MC who is being abused, then it will look like it is « normal » but to me it is okay only if at the end, MC understands that it is wrong.
I’ve been in a toxic relationship with a manipulative boy who wouldn’t let me make friends and who tried to force me to make sexual things, and this is part why, as I was young back then, I think we must show to young persons that it is possible to leave relationships that are toxic - and that we have the right to. And that abuse happens, yes, but that it needs to be stopped.
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I am sorry this happened to you!
Of course, stories that represent it well are worth reading!
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I’m sorry you had to go through that.
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It is okay. I don’t feel ashamed because of what I’ve been through. If it helps you both feel better about me, I met another man that treats me really well and is very patient. In 3 years he has never forced himself onto me.
Never feel ashamed of what you had experienced. Some things need to be said to get better 
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That’s awesome!! I’m so happy for you.
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