I already posted this request in the romance sub but posting it here as well 🙂
I love reading marriage and kids in the epilogue, warms my heart but I'm in search of books which get past that epilogue and deals into actual marriage and maybe kids life. I want to read about the after marriage life and how much love grows after their marriage. How they handle different situations and how much more closer they get.
Romance books tend to only capture the initial "high" but I'm a firm believer that love actually grows more and more as people spend more time/ get married/ have kids etc. I don't believe the "honeymoon stage" ends, I think it grows into something much better.
Anyways, I love Marriage of convience tropes but again they do not love each other and we are given all the initial things.
If there is any book which goes into love after marriage/kids please drop recs!
It could be any genre! I read CR, HR, fantasy, classics etc
by Objective-Panic-6426
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That’s such a beautiful topic to explore — love that continues after marriage, when it matures and deepens instead of fading.
I read a book recently that really touched on that idea in a subtle, emotional way. It’s called Until I Found You.
It’s not just about falling in love — it’s about rediscovering it through everyday life, healing, and choosing peace over perfection.
It felt more real than most romance I’ve read — quiet, grown, and deeply human.
If fantasy is okay, the Sharing Knife books by Lois Macmaster Bujold. It’s not the kind of fantasy with elves and dragons, and the setting is similar to 18th-19th century America.
The couple meet and marry in the first book, and the other three are the story of their first year of marriage.
Long Island, the sequel to Brooklyn deals with life after marriage. More realistic than romantic I would say.
You could argue that The Poisonwood Bible might be the same.