Comments on: Emotional Wound: Financial Ruin Due To A Spouse’s Irresponsibility https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/04/emotional-wound-financial-ruin-due-spouses-irresponsibility/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/04/emotional-wound-financial-ruin-due-spouses-irresponsibility/#comment-434031 Sun, 10 Apr 2016 03:57:24 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19773#comment-434031 In reply to Jeff King.

well put!

]]> By: Jeff King https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/04/emotional-wound-financial-ruin-due-spouses-irresponsibility/#comment-433815 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 19:18:00 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19773#comment-433815 I totally agree, our characters behave from every aspect of life…pain, love, disappointment, successes, parental up bringing biases and all, strengths, weakness, meekness or bravado all depic unique characters… Knowing this helps bring forth words on page to a sharp mental image of your characters.

]]> By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/04/emotional-wound-financial-ruin-due-spouses-irresponsibility/#comment-433758 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 16:58:52 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19773#comment-433758 In reply to Sandra Hutchison.

Yes exactly–and in many cases the relationship may not survive because there’s a feeling of betrayal or hurt over trust issues too.

]]> By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/04/emotional-wound-financial-ruin-due-spouses-irresponsibility/#comment-433755 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 16:57:55 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19773#comment-433755 In reply to Joy Pixley.

Very glad to hear you’ll be able to apply this to your character, Joy!

]]> By: Joy Pixley https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/04/emotional-wound-financial-ruin-due-spouses-irresponsibility/#comment-433743 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 16:50:43 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19773#comment-433743 Great post! This happened to my MC before the novel starts. Her nobleman husband not only spent or gambled away all their money, but got her father involved in his schemes and destroyed her family fortune too, before being killed in a drunken fight over a card game. She feels completely (irrationally) responsible for all of it, deciding that she should have paid closer attention, she should have fixed their problems, it’s all her fault. So now she’s driven to “redeem” herself by saving the remainder of her family all by herself, without allowing anyone else to help, even risking her own life to do it.

Some of the related responses you list are relevant too, and I hadn’t thought of them; I will definitely consider adding more along these lines!

]]> By: Sandra Hutchison https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/04/emotional-wound-financial-ruin-due-spouses-irresponsibility/#comment-433701 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 15:09:08 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19773#comment-433701 I would add that one’s sexual desire for a person takes a big hit after you find out he’s been spending away your future in secret.
(Also, a lot of those possible habits will also emerge if you try to write for a living!) 🙂

]]> By: liz n. https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/04/emotional-wound-financial-ruin-due-spouses-irresponsibility/#comment-433656 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 13:29:49 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19773#comment-433656 Similar to one of my characters, difference being that his financial ruin came at the hands of his mother.

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