My last book, Future Sepsis, wasn't a romance, but it did have a romantic element to one of the arcs.
I was pleased with myself how I handled it. The male character's whole thing is he's highly moral and sees the world through an old fashioned lens, and so while they were in this traumatic situation and the woman POV character starts falling for him, he goes "Call me old-fashioned. But not here. Not now. We’re going to get off this island, and when we do, I’m going to ask you something, and let’s see where things go from there", and she accepts that for the moment because it's consistent with his character, who has slowly won her over through his insistence on giving her special consideration as a woman, something she initially was extremely hostile about.
My understanding is that such a move, as well as the lead-up to it, are sort of unusual in fiction in 2025. Morality is painted as a sort of vague general "be nice", not as a set of rules that sometimes prevents two people who want something from just going for it.
I was pleased with myself how I handled it. The male character's whole thing is he's highly moral and sees the world through an old fashioned lens, and so while they were in this traumatic situation and the woman POV character starts falling for him, he goes "Call me old-fashioned. But not here. Not now. We’re going to get off this island, and when we do, I’m going to ask you something, and let’s see where things go from there", and she accepts that for the moment because it's consistent with his character, who has slowly won her over through his insistence on giving her special consideration as a woman, something she initially was extremely hostile about.
My understanding is that such a move, as well as the lead-up to it, are sort of unusual in fiction in 2025. Morality is painted as a sort of vague general "be nice", not as a set of rules that sometimes prevents two people who want something from just going for it.
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