reality: she is manipulating me to depend on her emotionally, physically and financially to satisfy her insecurities of companionship. if I ever improve and become a better person she might feel threatened in seeing her insecurities and break up with me.
cope: she loves me for who I am and will never give up on me
A. Suppress growth so you can keep your pet as is
B. Be too shy to express your emotions (negative tsuntsun)
C. Be a twitter one page manga artist and abruptly finish it (when you get fed up or disinterested) with a murder and/or suicide for shock value (ew dark)
D. Make your weak / under acheiver character grow over the span of 100s of pages (hey chapters are usual a minimum of 4 pages I put the effort in!)
E. Obiwan Kenobi