Okay, this is my first post, and I'm going to attract hate, but what the hell, let's do it.
First of all: do not confuse infatuation and romantic love. The first it's biological and lasts one or two years. The second one it's the cultural construction that it's created on the basis of infatuation. So, you can marry for love, but this love (if understood as "oooooh, I'm so much in love") it's going to be a lie after two years. This does not meant that you don't love your couple after two years: you have lots of affection, biological too, for him or her, but you're not in love with that person, no more.
Second... what the fuck it's that of "maybe the bride loves her husband and Fleur at the same time"?: since infatuation serves to ensure offspring with someone with appropriate genes by making you concentrate in that person (homosexual love has the same basis, but not the same purpose: we don't know it's function) it's exclusive. In my country there is a song that says: "no pots amar a dues dones a la vegada", "you can't love two woman at the same time". Have you ever been in love? I have. And what's more, I am gay, so I have been in love with a man. It was not that intense, or colorful, or painful, but it was rather exclusive. I mean, it was not like: "I have had not enough, so I'm going to fall in love with five mens! and it's lovey dovey shitty doggey true love with every of them!. And what's more! I'm going to fall in love with a woman too! And marry her, and invite the five mens! And make them sit in the front! And send every of them photos of my kissing with her, even thought I'm in love with them and not with her because I'm gay"
At this point... what's up with the bride? Well, this one shot is pretty skeptical with gay love. Do not strange philosophies: she is being cruel. I have read thing like she is leaving things well established. She is not solving anything, she is torturing Fleur. Like "oh, I knew all the way you were in love with me, but I made you the bridesmaid to show you how happy I'm without you. And you know: I have been in love with you all this time! I'm in love with you right now! You must feel stupid, not confessing in all this time! And now, even thought I'm in love with you, a man has taken your place! But don't worry: now I have a penis with me, so everything is fine. Maybe you can find your own penis too!". Maybe she could have told her that she knows about her feelings, and comfort her, but this way it's only saying she does not care about Fleur. Read again, and imagine you're Fleur. If she wanted to do the best for the two she would have let Fleur follow her own way WITHOUT TOLD HER THAT IN THE END SHE WANTS TO BE WITH HER! What's supposed to think the poor girl? And yes, yes, japanese culture (what the hell, world wide culture) push woman to marry because they have not enough to survive for themselves or they become outcasts. But this manga it's not opposing! It's only going on with the flow! So, it's realistic? Well, not that much, but the realistic parts are just the wrong parts that we have to change, not only recognise and assume!
I think I'm going to put this on the list of: "stories about how you can't be happy being gay" that people have told me so much times.

last edited at Jun 5, 2015 6:36AM