The other issue is people who are always talking about how horrible it is that Bella isn't confident yada, yada, yada. Hello! She is 17 years old! She's a stinking high schooler! I skipped high school, so went through all the teenage crap in college, but I'm sure it was similar. Your body is changing, your hormones are running amok, you're starting to become seriously interested in the opposite sex, it's a rough age. I don't know
anybody who didn't have these types of feelings about
something when they were a teenager. That's why I like Bella, you can identify with her even if her choices are not hte choices you would make.
That's also whey I like the 5th Harry Potter even though a lot of people don't- Harry becomes a typical teenager! It makes him relatable. It's stupid (IMO) to expect a character to be perfect, they are human after alll.
And can you imagine how hard it is for Edward? Stuck forever at 17 (no thank you!). Sort of in this limbo between old man and teenager. Never moving forward or changing, never having another person to share his life with like the rest of his family. Despising what he has become. I love how people call his relationship "unhealthy" or compare him to a stalker like it's some horrible thing. Hello, he is not even human! Okay, I feel better!