Talk:Duchess In Distress/@comment-172.218.39.193-20130711212442/@comment-3109050-20130712012259

Contrary to popular belief, Aelinore does NOT automatically become your love interest if you finish this quest. It just raises her affinity considerably. To prevent her from being your love interest, simply reduce her affinity to 0 anytime BEFORE this quest by going to her chamber and do the Sheathe/Unsheathe method. Just make sure you have your desired beloved to have maxed affinity as well.

The quest is the only source for the item Love-in-the-rough so unless you have someone to give a copy of that item to you or you have already done the quest before in a previous playthrough, it's recommended to finish this quest.