If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.
I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give.
To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.
People and relationships never stop being a work in progress
She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive.
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.