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Originally Posted by ATDrake
There's a trope name for the underlying conflict of the general idea of what you want, "The City vs. the Country", which might be useful as a descriptive shorthand.
It sounds like you want a subversion of Plot B2. Unfortunately, there are very few such mentioned among the media listed under "Moving from City to Country", and no romance ones as far as I could tell. |
More or less. Embarrassment is not a requirement, as long as there is justified dread of moving back.
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Originally Posted by ATDrake
(Incidentally, I think perhaps the trope you want might be easier to find in chick-lit romantic comedies than dedicated romance, though that's only the impression that I get from the respective genres' differing core sensibilities, and not based on actually having read all that many of them.)
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You're probably right about that. The dedicated romance genre seems very firmly convinced that a story has to take place in an idyllic setting where the only strife that exists is what the growing relationship causes, or it's not a real romance. Which annoys me. Real relationships don't develop in a vacuum, and certainly don't last if they stay in one. Granted, if we wanted "real", a romance novel is the last place to look for it, but variety doesn't seem like too much to ask for.
I'll definitely take a look at
Holding Out for a Hero.Thanks for the suggestion!
