If you mean the Two Rivers women specifically, I agree 100%!
Wonderfully put! I don't really think it needs to be justified in the case of tWoT however. In the best of literary circumstances, the author--with all of the influences he or she has had in their life--will write just what the...
Yes, that is very true, and often true of real world relationships as well. The thing with Thom and Elayne was weird . . . but it was intriguing because it got the reader wondering if there was some fatherly connection--possibly biological--that Elayne was responding to in the only way she knew...
The couples mentioned are the only examples I can think of in tWoT, and I think it comes down to who and what they are. Nynaeve might be a bit more strange because she is young to begin with (and as I recall there was specific mention of her being 27, and complaining that she looked younger and...