My male main character thinks that his wife is dead (and so does everyone else), and he needs to get remarried right away.
What sort of circumstantial reasons could there be for him to need to be married? Any suggestions would be appreciated :)
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Mayo 12, 2008 - 15 38
I guess it could depend on the time period, really. In the past, like in pioneer times, some people would get married because they needed a spouse. A man's wife might die and leave him with children, and he needed someone to look after the children and run what little household he may have had. He'd get that help by remarrying. The same way around--the woman really needed a man to work so she could care for the children.
The circumstances could be very dire, pushing them into things like that. So children is all I can really think of.
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Mayo 12, 2008 - 16 31
Does there have to be an external reason? It's really not that uncommon for widowers (widows too, but men are more likely to do this) who were happily married to their now deceased spouses to get remarried shortly afterwards because they found they enjoyed married life so much.
As for the woman, she loves him, he proposed. It's as simple as that.
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Mayo 12, 2008 - 18 21
It is in a modern time period.
He's not especially in love with the old wife, and doesn't need to be in love with the new girl. I do want him to be actively trying to find a new wife.
Maybe he would feel really empty with the sudden loss of his wife and need to fill the void, or try to get back the married life that he enjoyed like you said.
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Mayo 12, 2008 - 20 03
Yes, that is right up the ally that I was going to suggest. Maybe he doesn't really want a wife again, just the idea of one--the idea of a perfect person to take care of him again or something.
Or, he could place his self worth in how females (especially his wife and his mother) care about him so he is emotionally dependant on a wife and thinks that he needs another.
Or he has a vast fortune of his own that he can only get at when married (stupid old fashioned relitives).
Or she could have had the fortune but put it all in their kid's name so he needs a wife/mother figure to gain access to it (don't ask me how it made it into the will, but legal jargon can be "crazy like that" right?
Or he wants kids, but the only way his family will hear of it is if he's married.
Or he has a crazy idea of "the perfect life" but he can't have it without a trophy wife so he needs to find one.
Or he needs some way to hide his dark, secret life of crime and he needs a live in legal partner to do that--like a wife.
Or he saw a fortuneteller and she told him he'd never be happy without a woman and he believed her (but missed the part where the psycic hints at herself).
Or he considers a wife free maid service and woo hoo and is going crazy without with the old wife gone.
Or he has a dominating personality and needs someone to dominate.
Or he made a bet with someone that he'd never get a wife in X amount of days and since her death didn't affect him too much and he was having affairs anyway he goes for it.
Or he just wants someone to love and someone to love him.
Or he feels that a wife again will magically fix all his problems.
Or he could be a womanizer and want someone else to fill the void there.
Or something else or a combination of the above suggestions.
Hehe, that was fun. Do any of them work for you?
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Mayo 13, 2008 - 05 56
Misses his wife so much, he instantly marries a woman who looks a lot like her.
Oor, he really loves his wife and his wife knows that if she dies, he'll probably never get married again, so she writes in her will that she wants her husband to get married ASAP.
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Mayo 20, 2008 - 06 57
He needs someone to look after him.
----------Where I live this is a common reason. Everyone knows men can't look after themselves!
Worms, Roxanne, worms!