Boom. Or... maybe BLOOM?
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40 thoughts on “Love Not Found – Ch24, p64”
Liz
Oh gosh, I hope that’s Mallow speaking up. I think he has enough of Ammy’s toxicity to their daughter
Jenny
Amaryllis’ really laying her selfish toxicity out thick now. She’s just wanted to hoard Abeille (and Evette) all to herself no matter what, at everyone else’s expense. She doesn’t even think that keeping Mallow around her counts as he tried in die-hard fashion to stay with her. He probably won’t ever admit it but Amaryllis does deserve this rejection from Abeille; Amaryllis didn’t truly repair her relationship with Abeille, plus tried to erode her new roots here.
APW
At LAST. Go Mallow!
GMOrganism
YES MALLOW, THIS IS YOUR TIME TO SHINE!
David
“He will never love you like I do, Abeille. Never!” Now that’s a relief.
Crunch
I know right, like don’t threaten me with a good time Amaryllis.
Nina
The different flowers all being her friends made me cry. This is so beautiful!
David F
Oh, thanks for pointing that out. I thought it was more “I have found a nurturing place to put down roots”, but that’s so much cooler.
Jadeitea
Did you recognise them all? So far I’ve got: monotropa (probably Miel), Ivy, Holly, Aster, Clove, Tulip and possibly Poppy. Strawberries could symbolise Evette due to that one flashback. I think it’s Mallow on the far right? I’m not sure how to interpret the sunflower (or maybe that’s Miel?), peonies and roses, unless one of them is Botan? Maybe I’m reading too much into this 😀
Gina Biggs
I was so excited to draw that particular set of flowers! Yep, the Sunflowers are for Miel! The peonies are for Botan (bean knowledge: Botan is the Japanese word for Peony) ^_^
Jadeitea
Ohh, this is interesting, thank you!
Anja
Does the rose represent anyone?
Kendall 🍂❄
Yeah. I usually have nothing to say about the parts that are beautiful. Thanks for saying it.
Kendall 🍂❄
Is that Mallow? It’s about time. It’s about time. Thanks. “Ammy” meaning mommy.
Hylianarcher
Yeah booooooiiiiii! No more soft and squishy marshMallow! Let’s go sour marshMallow! About dang time.
Oldfashioned
Good grief, FINALLY. Better late than never, but glad you made it eventually, dude.
David
Frankly I don’t see that. He is just intervening in Amaryllis’ self-sabotage. He is still looking out for her best. It is just that smoothing round the edges right now doesn’t cut it.
GrackleGirlAli
Ehh, I don’t see it that way. She’s already sabotaged herself in front of Abeille and Miel, and Mallow finally putting his foot down in a way that goes against Amaryllis and not excusing her behavior is growth for him. He may still have a long way to go, but this is a very good first step.
Jenny
I definitely like the arching panel where Abeille’s light is shedding away Amaryllis’ brambles to grow out a garden of what I think are plants that Abeille’s supporting new family are named after. Very symbolic!
Moss
Finally!
Tiffany
No, not the cliff hanger! Lol. And I’ve noticed this awhile back but Mallow’s text bubbles are pink like his daughters. I just checked and when he first arrived with his wife, it was blue like hers. So he’s FULLY on his daughter’s side now. Let’s see what happens.
GrackleGirlAli
Good eye! I didn’t realize that. I’ll have to go back to watch the progression.
Bruce
Mallow? Or someone else.
I just don’t see how this is going to end well. Amaryllis seems unhinged. She is just going to continue to bully and there seems to be no one in the comic who she will listen to. Even if Mallow speaks up, it just creates another target for her anger. She can’t be reasoned with, only removed. Which is very sad.
GrackleGirlAli
Honestly, that’s just how the cookie crumbles, and she deserves it. With how much she’s put her daughter through, and most likely her husband as well, him putting his foot down will start to paint her into a corner, because then she has no one to back her up or make her look like she still has people on her side. Best case scenario this fight ends with her storming off, leaving the planet, and both Abeille and Mallow going no contact with her. And that’ll be the best for everyone involved, except Amaryllis, which to be honest, I couldn’t care less about what happens to her. Again, that’s the best case scenario. She could still try to regain control, because that’s what narcissists do, control everything around them to feel better about themselves, but it could really backfire on her since she’s probably going to be desperate and make a mistake. But we’ll see what happens.
Beth
*YES* 😎🫣
(Also, way to channel Mother Gothel there, Mom. Yeesh.)
Wren
Holy crap, Mallow finally found his voice?!
Flowers
MALLOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEEAAAHHHHH WHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GrackleGirlAli
YES!!! I knew it! I was hoping, wishing, crossing my fingers that Mallow would FINALLY put his foot down! I really hope this is the start of both Abielle and Mallow breaking away from Amaryllis and healing from her bullsh*t.
Kendall 🍂❄
Is Love Not Found Shoujo or Shounen?
Phil C.
PLEASE let that be Mallow finally finding his spine. Because DUDE, you should have done this years ago.
I don’t even eat popcorn and I am here, bag in hand, eagerly awaiting the next updates. 🙂
Gorse
I mean, to be fair, I think that Amaryllis is right, to an extent. He never will love Abielle the way that she does.
Unlike Amaryllis though, and unlike pretty much all people who use that very toxic line, I think that’s a very good thing. :’ ) They never seem to consider the possibility that you don’t WANT someone to love you the way they do.
Jenny
That’s fairly understandable. After what I went thru with my Dad until his passing, I haven’t wanted to get stuck in another relationship similar with him again. Not just Dad but other negative experiences with people: It was enough to caused me to give myself a wide distance of others from dealing with all that past grief again. I’m more selective now on who I want to deal with and I hope that it does safeguard myself from being hurt again much the same before.
Dinglehopper
Jenny, I am so sorry that you went through all of that. It sounds like you went through quite a lot, but came through to the other side. Glad that you are finding some carefully selected chosen family!
Kendall 🍂❄
That is not love though. If you love someone, set them free. A parent loves their child and wants them to be free. I cry because she’s not with me, but I am happy that she is florishing.
Ves
YES MALLOW GO! DIVORCE DIVORCE DIVORCE
Bruce
Y’know, I think the only thing that Mallow could say that Amaryllis might listen to is to remind her that children grow up and make their own decisions.
Dragging Abielle back ‘home’ won’t bring Evette back, nor is it what Evette would want.
Amaryllis’ grief is real but she can’t control her way out of it. At some point she needs to let go.
If she doesn’t, she’ll lose everything and everyone.
I look forward to see how this plays out.
Deb R.B.
FINALLY!!
Also, “He’ll never love you like I do!” GOOD!
pax
what a beautiful page.
Kendall 🍂❄
I hope this isn’t too broad or provocative a topic (narcissism), but have readers listened to youtube channels “Heal NPD” or “Cluster B Milkshake”?
I think I’m a mutt who has some narcissistic traits. Or, every description of a disorder that I have read I can relate to.
It’s very weird that mental health is treated as something for “those other people” who are not us. All of us need and provide therapy.
Dealing with an Amaryllis cuts across any ideas about our mental health with boundaries. We have autonomy loosely defined by our preference. Abeille and I hope Mallow can establish some boundaries, at this point in the story.
I don’t look forward to a war. I doubt Am will understand much of it, but giving her a convincing reason to think she is being attacked might make things worse.
How Gina is going to tell the rest of the story makes me anxious.
Grandmotherbear
My maternal host beast made Ammy look like a piker. When she moved into assisted living 4 hours drive away from us, I gave her several chances to relate to us without toxicity. She started calling me up shrieking she was too sick to get out of bed. She had both a call light and a phone to contact the staff- that’s the “assisted” part. I was going thru exacerbations of sciatica and couldn’t sit comfortably. Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me. I was her health care surrogate so after I stopped responding to her manufactured crisises she started playing with her meds so she’d have to be hospitalized. Then she started having the night shift nurses call me at pm or midnight or am and beg me to come see her and help with her decision making. I’d remind them that a health care surrogate in Florida only is activated when someone is unable to give an informed consent. i asked those nurses “Has she been documented by 2
doctors as unable to give consent?’ They’d answer “N0. ” I’d ask
“Do you think she’s able to give an informed consent?” They’d say “Yes.” I’d say “Don’t call me until she can’t give an informed consent” A couple of nites later it’d start all over again. it was her own fault that she didn’t see didn’t see me before she died. I’ve never felt bad about it. In Hosea there is an appropriate quote ” They have sowed the wind and now they shall reap the whirlwind”
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