A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.
Forcing people together is an enjoyable conflict to watch, but I think it's even more enjoyable if they love each other.
That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
I, for one, love kids in my romance novels. When done right, kids add so much conflict. Not just of the 'interruption on the way to the bedroom' variety. But conflict about commitment and insecurity.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.