The ideal romance features a sexy hero and an intrepid heroine. They meet. They fall in love, and they live happily ever after. But life is messy, and these days romance writers take a leaf from reality. They include some of the things we find in our own lives. There are divorces, remarriages, blended families. There are single parents with children, with pets.
Along with the man-woman thing, couples have to juggle children and pets and the courtship phase before they decide if they can take their romance further.
Some readers don?t like their romances polluted with children or pets. Some readers have enough children and pets at home. They don?t want to read about them too. For some people kids are the ultimate contraception!
Here are a few advantages and disadvantages of including children or pets in your romance:
1. Kids and pets need looking after all the time, which means romantic adventures require lots of planning in order to guarantee privacy.
2. Kids can?t be trusted not to blurt out things when they shouldn?t.
3. Kids and pets can make characters shine and show their softer emotional sides.
4. Kids and pets provide fodder for cute meets and sometimes matchmaking opportunities.
5. Kids are determined, and if they don?t like you, they?re sure to let you know. Their dislike gets in the way of romance.
6. Think of the worst time for a kid to interrupt, and they?ll probably time the interruption to the second.
7. Dogs have sharp teeth, and have no problem with using them.
8. Pets are easier to foist off on friends and neighbors.
9. Kids require babysitting if you?re going to move the romantic action somewhere other than home.
10. Romantic scenes usually have to take place in the bedroom. None of this trying out every room in the house, and forget the kinky stuff!
My personal thoughts on kids, pets and romance? For me, as a person without kids in real life, it depends on the author execution. Sometimes the stories work for me, and sometimes they don?t.
What do you think? Do you like romances featuring kids and pets? Dislike them?
?Shelley Munro is tall and curvaceous with blue eyes and a smile that turns masculine heads everywhere she goes. She?s a university tutor and an explorer/treasure hunter during her vacations. Skilled with weapons and combat, she is currently in talks with a producer about a television series based on her world adventures.
Shelley is also a writer blessed with a VERY vivid imagination and lives with her very own hero in New Zealand. She writes mainly erotic romance in the contemporary, paranormal and historical genres. You can learn more about Shelley and her books at http://www.shelleymunro.com.
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