>>So, strong bond + traumatic experience + ECR to actually finding each other + complicated needs...<<

Yikes.

>>I also got tired of fantasy adventure stories never having irritating language barriers or having to work through cultural misunderstandings.<<

LOL yes.

Someone once said that writers will put their heroes through any harrowing experience, except having to learn a foreign language. I was like, "But that's my favorite one!" Both reading and writing.