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@melancholicwriter, to boil it down to the bones, a romance story is about two people either drawing closer together, or falling apart. In other words, the love relationship is the driving force of the story.

I may be wrong, but it sounds like the driving force of your story is not so much the relationship between the girl and the boyfriend who rapes her, but the girl’s own journey toward healing and forgiveness after the fact.

Though that journey may include dating, kissing, and even another boyfriend someday, in my opinion what you’ve got would be closer to a “growing up” or “coming of age” story than a typical romance.