Should I Have Ended My Friendship Over a Controversial Book Plot?

A 24-year-old woman thought she was supporting her friend’s dream, until a horror-romance plot turned into a boundary test. What started as encouragement for a book that sounded exciting quickly got weird, fast.

Her friend, 26, kept pitching details about a couple who had to hide from one of the character’s exes, except the main couple were related. Then OP snapped, called the friend strange and weird, and ended the friendship.

Now OP has to live with the fallout and wonder if cutting ties was too far for something that was “just fiction.”

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I (24F) was friends with her (26F) for a few years we always got along and we are both Interested In literature and writing and she told me she wanted to write a book and I liked her writing and encouraged her to write a book. She told me she wanted to do a horror/romance story and that It was about a couple who have to hide from one of the characters exs I was excited to read It until she told me she wanted the main couple to be related and I was uncomfortable I told her I was uncomfortable and that I thought It was strange to put It In a story.

She said she wouldnt talk to me about her story but she kept telling me details and more about the couple even though I told her It made me uncomfortable and I think she Is strange to want to put that In her story she said that Its her story and she can put It In her story If she wants to put she kept telling me about It when I told her I didnt want to hear about It. I called her strange and weird and I think Its messed up to put that In a story even If It Is fiction and I stopped being friends with her so AITAH for stop being her friend?

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OP was genuinely into the horror-romance idea until the moment her friend said the main couple would be related.

The friendship got tense when OP told her friend it made her uncomfortable, and her friend basically refused to drop the subject.

Instead of respecting the “please stop” moment, the friend kept adding more details about the hiding-from-an-ex setup and the related-couple twist.

When OP called her friend strange and weird and walked away, that’s when the real question hit: was the plot the problem, or the refusal to listen?

We'd love to hear your take on this situation. Share your thoughts below.

OP might not be the asshole for ending a friendship that kept crossing her “stop talking about this” line.

Still stuck on where to draw the line with someone you live with, see the neighbor who rehomed a cat after property damage, without asking.