How do I write relationships between male characters?

lgbtqwritingprompts:

In my FAQ  which is an accessible link on my blog, I state that your questions have to be more specific than this. No harm done, I just want to remind people about the FAQ. 

This question is difficult to answer because if you remove the “male characters” specifically, it’s “how do you write a relationship” which is hard, because there are so many different people and each one of them will have a different type of relationship with their partner. There is no surefire way on how a mlm relationship is supposed to be. One thing that will be beneficial, is to do some research. There are many blogs run by mlm, or preexisting stories where you can take inspiration from. 

There are some things you should probably avoid if this is supposed to be a positive relationship:

• power imbalances
• clearly making one man “the woman” of the relationship (they’re both men!)
• huge age differences/relationships between minors and adults (plays into the gay pedophile trope)

If you have a more specific question later, feel free to send another message 🙂