Tineoidea:

Congratulations for a whole month of telling your story, a fictional story, I believe: Aug 20- Sept 20, 2021. It is the inadequately and under-developed characters in your story that don’t make sense to me, even more than the senseless plot.

Your story starts with a greatly exaggerated and frankly, unbelievably perfect love story, especially given the “fact” that throughout this perfection you are supposedly experiencing “legal and economic situations (that) are very convoluted“:

“I’ve been in a very intense and enjoyable relationship..  we enjoyed every moment together. At the start we helped each other a great deal emotionally, unraveled each other’s issues, helped each other heal and bloom, become confident and full of life. It was a truly amazing experience to spend every day together, never a boring or dull moment, and the feelings, attraction only kept growing stronger. This has been going strong till the last few months“-

The last sentence: “till the last few months” leads to the Conflict, the necessary part in a story, without which there is no story, a conflict that drives the plot forward (the possessive male friend, the double betrayal of a best friend and a lover).

I don’t think that the author (Tineoidea) is a young man living in a convoluted, adversary living situations, in a struggling, developing country. I have a tiny of an idea that he (or she) is an older person living in a developed country, having had formal education and a desire to author Fiction,  using this public forum to develop the characters and  the plot of a fictional Story.

anita