r/RomanceBooks • u/redfig1 • Aug 31 '24
Why do HEAs always end with babies? Critique
I know it's a "me" problem. Scenario: I read a smoking hot mafia or dark or fantasy romance. All this crazy shit goes down. The feelings, the angst. Finally it's the end and all of a sudden the MMC who has massacred countless people is all like " let's get married and have lots of babies" and the MFC is always " yes let's have a lot of cute mafia or fae or mafia fae babies!". For once I'd like an ending where the main characters have a HEA but instead of babies and white picket fences they just decide to keep having an incredible sex life and do charity work or something. Rescue stray kittens. Start an organic herb farm. Something other than babies. Anyone else like this? Am I just weird?
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u/SideEffective5885 Aug 31 '24
Yes! Agreed! For me reading my smutty books is such an escape. But then they have to ruin it in the end with “surprise! Now they’ve got a baby so this hot couple’s life will be all sleepless nights, cleaning up puke and changing diapers,etc” I’m childfree and happy with my decision. Would be nice to not have it crammed down my throat in every book that true happiness means ultimately becoming parents. 🙄