Fantasy with Soft Couple?
By soft, I mean like… no one is a sexy, brooding, badass. They are a healthy, soft couple who trust each other. I am frankly getting tired of one or both characters being written as badass and/or sexy for the sake of them being badass and/or sexy. Most of the time, it feels like the love interest is one of those qualities more for the readers. There isn’t any ‘spicy’ intimacy between them. Their interactions are soft, physical touch being long hugs, head pats, kisses on the hand, forehead, or nose and if you really want a kiss-kiss, it’s chaste and a bit clumsy and one or both is an embarrassed mess after. But they love each other, and trust each other. And you can tell even if romance isn’t the main genre. They interact well with the plot to the point romance is the sub sub genre, but you can tell they care.
And other than their relationship with their significant other, they are also in tune with their friendships. They have strong platonic love with side characters, but it doesn’t interrupt their relationship with their partner. In fact, I’d even prefer if their partner is close to them as well. There isn’t any jealousy, because they all trust each other even if they’re friends with the opposite gender (because people of opposite gender CAN form strong platonic relationships without any romance at any point).
If it’s hard to find or really doesn’t seem to exist (it’d be really sad if it didn’t, honestly), I’d be fine if it was modern. It doesn’t need to be physical, it can be an e-book on wattpad or something, though physical is preferred.