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New here, and I'm stuck on something. I'm a casual writer, but really want to get back into be serious with it again. I have a scene where the couple is a husband and wife, they're also parents. The wife had a crush on him throughout high school and then followed him to college as she lived with him while her dad was in the hospital and then returned while they had a fire that destroyed their home. Now she's a nurse while he's a pediatrician at the same hospital, but she's always says she loved him, but new that he wasn't affectionate and never asked for him to say it back. But as a new doctor gets transferred and she becomes insecure and wondering if they did the right thing, she gives him the divorce papers. Her stating that for her it was always one-sided and that she didn't feel enough except when he'd put a brave face on for their child.


What she doesn't know or understand is that he always did love her, but her heart is so big and pure he never how to show her that affection. He never could put into the love he has for her because he felt it was too small. And now he's losing him and possibly his daughter, he's scared. The divorce papers left him numb. He went through work the rest of the day, completely zombie-like in a complete state of shock. They day just blurred and as he got home alone and shut the door, finding out the house is empty. Their daughter's toy box by the couch her little shoes by the door, he picks it up and begins to cry.



That's all I have for now I wanted him to feel angry next, start destroying and breaking things, being totally mad and angry and have some slight self-hatred but I didn't know if that would be too intense for the male lead or not. If I could get any help that would be AMAZING thank you as I am new and very casual to writing at the moment. I got the inspiration after I got the inspiration of kinda retelling something from the point of view, something else, I have admired this late author's work and wanted to do the retelling in a different way, but I'm also a sucker for a happy ending and second chances so I eventually want incorporate that too. But I'm just writing out scenes and this has been stuck with me so far for three days.