I echo your sentiment, Agnes Beatrix! There's something ethereal about our favorite JA couples (Emma and Knightley in my case) that I can't bear to see them ending up with someone else. I don't mind reading how they face trials and tribulations, for through which that's how people grow and characters are built, and real life certainly has a lot of them, and I expect to see them coming out of the difficulties a better couple with stronger love. But I draw the line at infidelity, even death of one of the characters is more acceptable to me than being unfaithful, as no one could escape mortality, but not everyone would succumb to temptations of the worst kind. No matter how realistic and compelling the circumstances are, I have too much faith in them that their love and characters would be strong enough to withstand the fiercest of temptations.
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