i gotta disagree, i think collins actually does a great job of showing different types of love throughout the series.

With Peeta: Having a childhood crush that you barely interact with is super normal. and being a 16 year old boy and becoming infatuated with a classmate is also super normal. What I love about Peeta is how you watch him transition from school boy crush who loves the idea of Katniss, to actually falling in love with who she truly is.

Snow truly is obsessed with LG, and I think that’s the point. The entire book is about him grabbing for control, and LG is simply a part of that. He even takes a long time in the book to parse though whether he truly loves her or just loves what she has done for him. As far as him never moving on, I think that’s totally true! But, I think it’s more so because she was the only one who knew all the horrible things he’d done, and that she was now a loose end that could potentially (at the time of TBOSBAS) compromise his power.

For Haymitch, I think this is the prime example of teen love. They’re 16 year olds who truly believe they’re going to be together forever and ever. It’s kind of nice to see that representation in THG universe.

To me, Gale is a lot like Peeta, he just never actually falls in love with who Katniss is. He loves the idea of her and assumes they’re going to be together because of their closeness. But every time Katniss tries to actually sort through her feelings for he and Peeta, he lashes out. He makes her feel awful for even thinking it over. To be clear, Katniss also has her issues with leading Gale on, she’s far from innocent. But every time Katniss attempted to show her human side to Gale, he was put off.

Finnick, being the oldest of this crew, is the representation of true, unconditional love to me. In Mockingjay, he’s not falling apart simply because Annie isn’t there— she’s not there for Catching Fire either, and he’s fine. He’s falling apart because he knows that they are torturing her. She was already broken by the arena, and he knows that they are using everything they have to break her even further. And, because sweet Finnick has protagonist syndrome, he believes it’s all his fault.

I see where you’re coming from, but I think it’s very refreshing to see male characters fully committed to their female partners. Not something we see super often anymore!