Don’t we all want to be loved? A dashing fellow comes along,
tells our heroine everything a woman would want to hear, to make love to her.
He doesn’t mean it, at least partially (he wears a gray hat). She worries if
she’ll ever have the most beautiful feeling a human can have on this planet.
She lingers. She submerges warning signs. She gives him extra chances. Why?
Possibly, she desperately wants a HEA (happily ever after) and no one is
standing in line. Her mom and dad nurtured her, she deserves it all, she’s a
princess and her prince will show up someday, she’s beautiful, smart, funny,
loving…
The hero is also not immune to worrying about finding a mate
and love. A woman could come on to him seeing a meal ticket (not that women can’t
or shouldn’t be self-sufficient), settling for mister-right in front of her, reacting
only to her lust...
This is all good for a
writer’s arc if you choose to write a bad boy story. I would recommend
borrowing from inspirational romances. The lesson should not be: it is okay to
marry a bad person, unless you are a nihilist. If you are, why not write tragedies.
Taylor Swift, Blank Space, 2014
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