I find it very interesting that when Sarah had the opportunity in the CHD podcast to explain what it means to be mates, she VERY quickly goes into the negative aspects of it.
Q: Can you quickly explain what that (mates) means in the world.
A: It's kind of like your destined true love in a way, but it's complicated because there's a biological component to it. Where you can be mated to someone who is like, not actually your true love. So there's like true-true mates, and then there's like...nature made a mistake.
I mean like Rhys's parents--did not love each other. Like, it was not a great relationship. But they were mates, and it was like, there's a biological thing where it's like, we want to be together, but we're fucking miserable with each other--especially his mom. So it's tricky.
But when you find your perfect mate--like Rhys and Feyre, Cassian and Nesta--that is like the last little piece of your soul that was kind of like a little broken, and is like now...you found your person.
For an author who is a "fated mates author," she spent quite a long time telling us why it can kind of suck. lmao Who wants to be "fucking miserable" with their partner??
