If you could erase all the painful moments in life from your memory, but in doing so, you also lose all the beautiful moments full of love, would you do it? Everyone has experienced a form of pain, physical pain, trauma and hurt. We have also experienced the beautiful moments; hugs after a long day, laughing uncontrollably with your favourite people, moving into your first house, and experiencing a love that we would never want to erase from our memory. Colleen Hoover authored a novel on 3 relations of love, showing the beauty of it without masking the ugly side of love. Ugly love reveals the feelings of first love, holding your first child, and how hard it is to fight love although it can be ugly. In this novel “Ugly love” the theme of pleasure …show more content…
They have a complicated relationship with mixed feelings and communication. Miles wants a non-string attached relationship with Tate, while she quickly falls in-love with him and cannot ignore her feelings. When Tate and Miles open about their mutual attraction for each other, they come to an agreement with two rules set by Miles, “Don’t ask about my past, and never expect a future.” (88) Miles says this because he is scared to face his past and introduce love again in the future. Miles is convinced he will never experience love again even if he tried so he verbally tells Tate that he does not want a future. Although Tate knows this she cannot help but fall in love with him even if it hurts her. After Miles coldly shatters her heart, he comes to her apartment to apologize and confess his love for her, however Tate does not know this yet. When Tate sees Miles outside her door she tells herself, “I’ll let him inside, and I'll give him what he’s here for, which definitely isn't the part of me I want to give him.” This gives us as readers irony because we know something that Tate does not. This quote is proof that Tate wants to stop letting Miles back into her life because he cannot give her what she wants, however, Tate still has hope because his actions show that he loves her where his words are saying otherwise. Miles and Tate have a love that starts out ugly but once Miles becomes honest with his feelings, turns into a beautiful lively love, as Miles says, “That’s exactly what Tate did. She loved me back to life.” (318) in the last sentence of the novel. The love they share brings pleasure out of the