Step 2 for Truant Love

More than a dozen brave individuals have shared brief glimpses of their personal relationship histories. From these, with your help, we are going to start creating characters for Truant Love.

Feel free to add as much or as little information as you like to the comments for each character. We are looking for basic information like gender, occupation and a name, but we also want bits of back story -- where did this character come from, past relationships, present relationships, pets, hometowns, etc?

We are going to take all this information and build character profiles, which will be used to cast actors in the roles and to create storylines with your help ... but that's for steps 3 and 4.

Here are the characters, with a quick one-line summary (clicking on one will take you to that profile):

Serial monogamist/Satan - Character 1
Love me? I kinda like you -- Character 2
We all hurt for contact -- Character 3
Building love slowly -- Character 4
Pull the plug on budding love -- Character 5
The more I learn, the less I like ... you -- Character 6
I was young for believing in you -- Character 7
Ending things before they begin -- Character 8
Carrying my happiness for days -- Character 9
Grasping too hard -- Character 10
Am I boring you? -- Character 11
Sex in an emotional void -- Character 12
Addicted to falling in love -- Character 13
Looking to share the relationship load -- Character 14
Lonely enough for love? -- Character 15


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What are your relationships usually like? Why?

Character 2

Character 2:

i crush really hard on people i'll never have a real relationship with. they end up seeing my crazy way too early and i end up so much more hurt than the situation calls for.
in relationships, i tend to be with someone who loves me desperately, and whom i have affection for and am physically attracted to enough for the sex to work. sometimes to be really good, even.
every time i've said "i love you" it hasn't meant what it was supposed to mean.

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Character 1

Character 1:

I'm a serial monogamist with a short attention span. I know this about myself and try to be as honest with my partners as possible, but some things are easier said than believed.
In the end - and it always ends -- I'm the Satan, playing on the other person's affections.

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Character 3

Character 3:

If a person touches another, physically, affectionately, is that an expression of love?
Is it intimacy?
Well it ain't chopped liver.
In this time of ours we're achingly desperate for contact.
Could it be because we've been hiding behind our screens, daring someone to reach us?
If so, this hunger is a good thing.
It means we've got a shot at preserving our humanity.

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Character 4

Character 4:

A slow build.
Gradually but surely, we include each other in our lives a little bit more.
Sometimes that inclusion is face time, sometimes it's sharing an intimate detail.
Why? Because those kinds of relationships are built to last.

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Character 5

Character 5:

I've had tendency to pull the plug way early, without warning to avoid getting hurt in the long run. During my low points, I've taken to the "wounded bird", which naturally no good ever came from except to give me a temporary feeling of being needed. I fall hard for those I know I'll never have a relationship with. Perhaps its the comfort level I feel since it stems usually from a solid friendship.

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Character 6

Character 6:

I always seem to get the big surprise only after unveiling a few layers of superficial personality. guess it has a lot to do with falling for what appears to be quiet sensitive almost sad types only to find out some horrible trauma that spreads like bubonic plague, later. you know, like pulling back foreskin and finding stanky dick-cheese on your adonis. yech, get away from me you are literally rotting and fermenting!

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Character 7

Character 7:

you were young. i was young for believing you.

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Character 8

Character 8:

I don't like feeling beholden and I don't like sleeping alone. That is a tricky combination.
Before the ONE BIG HEART-BREAKING THING OF WHICH I AM HARDLY OVER I only ever dated people for 3 months at a time. MAX. Then I dated a dude for nearly 5 years and lived with him for nearly 3 years. Now, I am back to ending things before they begin, so that I don't fuck anyone up and no one fucks me up. Plus, I am really busy.

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Character 9

Character 9:

Sometimes one experience can carry your happiness for days.

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Character 10

Character 10:

I grasp too hard. I break things.

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Character 11

Character 11:

I'm always bracing myself for the (so-far inevitable) moment when he gets bored of me.
My very first relationship, in college-- I didn't know that it was possible for someone to just fall out of love. That's why, when he told me, it hit me like an anvil.
It's always best when you can talk about sex without feeling embarrassed.

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Character 12

Character 12:

my drug? emotionally disconnected sex with someone in whom i am psychologically interested. does that translate?

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Character 13

Character 13:

I fall in love like a chemical thing. It's fine for a while, and then when it hits there's no turning back. That would be fine if it always worked out, but I also fall in love with difficult people who have remarkable gifts and are often pretty damaged along the way.  When things turn out badly, I carry the pain for a long, long time.

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Character 15

Character 15:

This hurts a little to admit, even though I'm working on improving this cycle. My relationships tend to alternate between the following: A) I fall hard and quick; devote a great deal of energy, time and creativity to make sure the relationship works and my partner is happy. Then, when I inevitably burn out and need to recharge my batteries, I withdraw and get accused of neglect and/or being a different person. So I never get my needs nurtured as I was never forthcoming enough at the beginning. This hurt of expending energy followed by rejection lasts a long time. Or, B) I maintain a more casual relationship that fulfills my physical needs without getting close enough to threaten my emotions. And I usually end that arrangement when the other person wants to move forward to an official relationship. Until I get lonely enough to try for an emotionally close relationship again.

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Character 14

Character 14:

The give-and-take in my relationships tends to be a 70-30 split. I'm not always the one giving the 70 percent, but it happens often enough that I get angry and quit. Maybe one day I'll find a partner who will work toward an even split.

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