“I already told my family how I feel. Liking you, chasing after you, that’s all on me. I don’t need their help, and there’s no way I’ll let them get in the way.”
“I guess my mom saw what happened with Jesse’s mom and Laura. Jesse’s mom went to talk to Laura, and somehow Jesse and Laura just ended up together after that. My mom probably wanted to try the same thing, just to help me out.”
“She really means well. She’s always told me that as long as I’m happy, that’s enough for her. It’s my life, my choice who I spend it with. She never forces anything, at most she’ll give me a little advice. Whether I take it or not, that’s up to me.”
Honestly, the Carter family is pretty open-minded. Except for Salome, who thinks Isabella’s background isn’t good enough for Harold, everyone else is fine. And Salome’s old and not in the best health, so what she thinks doesn’t really matter much these days.
Isabella smiled. “I know.”
“Harold, I might not be able to give you what you want. Is it really worth it, putting so much effort into me?”
“What if I just want to date and never get married again? Or what if I never want to get married at all?”
Harold looked at her. “I don’t care if it’s worth it. I just know I like you.”
Isabella let out a soft sigh. “I just worry that you’ll miss out on someone better because of me. Why not try meeting other people? Go on a few dates, just to see if you click with anyone else?”
“Ethan’s still hanging on, and even though I’ll never get back together with him, it’s probably impossible for us to completely cut each other off.”
The truth was, even Isabella didn’t know what the future with Ethan might look like.
“Isabella, don’t try to push me to someone else. I don’t want to date anyone else, and I don’t need to. I like you, and that’s that. Someone else might be wonderful, but she wouldn’t be you. We just… fit. I don’t have a reason for liking you. My heart just… chose you. I fell in love, simple as that.”

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The readers' comments on the novel: After I Stopped Loving Him (Isabella and Ethan)
Frankly, the story initially was going quite good and the pacing was just right. unfortunately after Ethan got the dream of his past life, the story has been going in circles. Ethan's spouting the same nonsense every time he sees Isabella, they both have same conversations over and over. The authors monologue too has been the same for almost 400 chapters. Irrespective of which character the writing the just a repetition of what someone had gone through in the past and what made a certain character feel the emotions. York got introduced in 800 chapters yet nothing significant happened till date. Isabella is soft with Harold and kind of disgusted with Ethan, yet it is not entirely clear with whom she might end up. If she stays single i am fine with it but the story is clearly about Isabella and Ethan so almost 1000 chapters without seeing any progress in their relationship is frustrating. Except for being blindly in love and few aggressive instances with Isabella, Ethan actually isnt a bad person so i am fine if he can win her back. Even though Harold is coming off as a good second lead, i am somehow unable to warm upto him. Even the bad people in the story are not really facing any real consequences. I hate Jackson for his hypocrisy. I hate Jordan and Natalie for their self-righteouness and selfishness. I also hate Deborah, except when she is handing it out to Natalie. I am almost on the verge of dropping this story....
Why are they acting like kids 🤣😭...
Ethan is actually not that bad if we take out his blind love for Natalie...