Cold Relationship?

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I've been engaged for over a year now, because my fiancee and I had to postpone our wedding due to the pandemic. I frequently daydream about our honeymoon and plan our the activities we're going to do, because it makes me happy to think about. The concept that a couple would want to spend time on their honeymoon apart is CRAZY to me!! But of course, every relationship is very different and some people value independence more than others.
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I don't think any kind of cold relationship was intentional, but the book definitely failed to indicate much warmth there beyond the superficial stuff like kisses and calling each other pet names. For the most part, the two title characters could have just been acquaintances rather than a married couple and the book would have barely changed
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I definitely couldn't understand their relationship. It seemed like a marriage for the sake of it. Even when Kelly is nervous about breaking into the computer lab, I thought Tom would ask her not to do it because it's natural to feel concern while sending your loved one in a dangerous situation, but in this case Tom seemed least bothered.
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I don't think their relationship is cold. It does seem like it is well established. I felt like they'd been together for several years before they got married.
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I personally think the author the author did not do much as regards this. Their relationship was underdeveloped. The couples seemed so weird.
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Though they didn't seem madly in love, but they relationship where boring.
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I think their marriage was underdeveloped and overwhelmed by the rest of the story.
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In the previous book, there was cyber but no technology. In this book, there was honeymoon in the title but no romance. I mean, who goes on different activities on their honeymoon trip!
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Sincerely I found their relationship to be very cold. Outside minding their business, it seemed off to me that Kelly called her brother when she was under attack instead of her newly weded husband.
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I did find it unusual that while on their honeymoon they were doing different things, but to each his own. You must admit that the story would not have worked out the way it did if they had been together.
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Anybody would probably think the same thing. A couple on a honeymoon moving around separately to have fun is a cold relationship.
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Well, I think their marriage was not lively as I expected. I mean during their honeymoon how can they be at different places.
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The relationship between the newly wedded couples was not just cold, it also did not capture any element of reality. It felt so weird when Kelly got into trouble that she had to call her bother who was far away instead of her newly wedded husband who was in the same location as her. Honestly the author should have done more.
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I believe their marriage is cold and lacks the fire every newly wedded couple has.
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I believe that every one is responsible for their happiness and this isn’t different with married couples. I think that the concept of people doing everything together because they’re married is a facade but rather share the moments of their individual happiness with each other is the through meaning of love and marriage.
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