10 Bad Relationship Habits That’ll Haunt Your Fictional Character in Marriage
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10 Bad Relationship Habits That’ll Haunt Your Fictional Character in Marriage
1. Checking their phone while the other person is talking to them
2. Never owning any fault and just blaming the other person for all the problems
3. Never looking for ways to get out of the boring regular daily routine
4. Never complimenting the other person or saying thank you
5. Always looking for the wrong the other person did and complaining about it
6. Constantly being needy and demanding things of the other spouse
7. Always feeling self-conscious and asking the other person if they love them or not
8. Never learning how to compromise and create a win-win scenario in the relationship
9. Getting in the habit of making their partner jealous in order to gain love, affection and attention
10. Expecting their spouse to be able to always read their mind
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10 Bad Relationship Habits That’ll Haunt Your Fictional Character in Marriage
Bad habits make writers think about what goes on in a character’s mind.
Giving fictional characters bad habits is a good and natural way to create conflict and resolution between your characters.
Fictional Characters need to be seen as not perfect, but as primitive and mortal. Unless of course they are immortal 😉 but even then, adding some sort of weakness to them helps our reader mesh with them.
Don’t overthink bad habits. Just work on giving your fictional character a few that make sense.
Combining three or four makes sense, but don’t overdo it with 10 or more unless they are supposed to be a real slob.
Also, figure out good consequences for the habits you give.
Do some bad habits affect others? What are the consequences of certain combined bad habits?
Do they get easily angered and yell at the drop of a hat?
Maybe they punch walls and doors out of their uncontrolled anger issues?
This bad habit could lead them to break their hand.
They could go further and become violent in the home leading to abuse, police calls and jail time.
Where do your characters’ bad habits lead them?
Do they end up losing their marriage and family at the same time?
Are bad habits a part of your decision making in how your character acts toward other characters? Do your character’s bad habits affect the way that other characters think about them?
In other words, feel free to think through what bad habits you want them to have and how bad habits can affect each other and have a compound effect on your fictional character. I hope these bad relationship habits that’ll haunt your fictional character help you get creative ideas for writing.
Happy writing 🙂
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10 Bad Relationship Habits That’ll Haunt Your Fictional Character in Marriage
10 Bad Relationship Habits That’ll Haunt Your Fictional Character in Marriage
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