True this so freaking much.
Bella keeps thinking she’s this mature adult woman, but if she wants to be treated that way, she needs to act that way, and she DEFINITELY doesn’t. What kind of mature, responsible, adult woman would just straight up skip town, no notice to the person who loves her and provides free shelter for her, to find her boyfriend in ITALY when his absence caused such misery and actual physical illness for almost an entire year? Oh right, THEY WOULDN’T.
Plus, Bella always acts like her dad is unreasonable and restrictive. He’s not. He’s a dad with a daughter. One, dads with daughters ALWAYS worry about them because they know how men act and are afraid that one will hurt their daughter in some way, shape, or form. To Charlie, Edward caused his daughter to go to the hospital after she ran away from home blaming not only Edward, but Charlie as well. At Bella’s birthday party at the Cullens’, she somehow sliced her arm open. Then he has to get a search party together because his daughter was lost and sick in the woods after Edward dumped her. Then she was physically sick and depressed for months on end, causing him to wake up in the middle of the night and worry about his daughter and not now how to fix anything because she doesn’t talk to him. Then she gets in motorcycle accidents and starts making bad decisions about things. Then she ends up in goddamn Italy without any real notice and comes back saying everything’s okay between her and Edward now because she can’t tell Charlie the truth about fucking anything. What’s he supposed to do? Like Edward? If I were Charlie - since I wouldn’t know he was a vampire - I would threaten his life for making my daughter miserable every day and, to ensure my daughter didn’t end up killed by this idiot that caused her so much strife, I’d forbid her to date this guy. Unreasonable? I don’t think so. In my opinion, as a father, the next step he might notice is abuse, and I wouldn’t want that for my daughter. There’s no way in hell I’d trust Bella’s judgement any more on this guy. He already had two chances. That would be enough.
Jesus Christ on a cracker, I can’t fucking stand this series.
(Source: reasoningwithvampires)
