Writing comes from the subconscious and the unknown... We're raised by romantic stories that generally include men who are not emotionally available, and women who chase them in order to be picked.
I wanted to deconstruct the cliches of what we expect from a man... Sylvain is in touch with his feelings but is also what we expect of a 'real man'. Xavier is intellectual but is [removed] from his feelings.
In The Nature of Love, it's a woman, not a man, who instigates an affair initially driven by lust: Sophia is drawn to Sylvain's raw physicality.
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