Like intellectual Negligence or physical Mercenary behavior, which are vices about burdening a partner with a kind of laziness, shunning duties through the use of the excuse, "I don't know how", Failty is a character "vice of deficit of Resilience". It is "without resolve" to the point of being "win/lose" or destructive to the goals of the relationship. It is built on the laziness and cowardice of a person [Read more...] about Failty

Faineance is a vice of deficit related to the corresponding virtue of Aspiration. It is a bit different from Stagnation, in that it is not just about physical sloth or laziness, inability to "get off the couch," but rather, a kind of "mental laziness."

Marriage and commitment have a way of forcing us to reconsider our long-held goals, sometimes to align them better to the needs of a partner, but [Read more...] about Faineance

Faith is more prone to action than Hope. It is closer and may bridge into action strategized first by Hope then by growing Faith. 

In a sense, Faith = Hope + Courage. 

Hope and Faith - both can be used for good or bad or from either optimism or delusion. Where both lead to free willed decisions: they are the mirror reflection inside the boundary of the equal statistical potential [Read more...] about Faith

Like intellectual Charlatanry ("sneaky behavior") or physical Abdication, which are vices about "bailing on" someone, not stealing their resources, but dishonoring them, disregarding them, disrespecting them or their actual possessions, it is at the cost of their joint success. Like its reference virtue of Resourcefulness, Fallowness involves cleverness, but means "unsown, or not pregnant."  One is not "baking anything up" or growing anything "in their heads." It is a character [Read more...] about Fallowness

When people have the tendency to retreat into fantasy in order to resolve their inner conflicts, or outer stresses, this is also the way of teens who take to science fiction or romantic fantasy media to keep themselves from being overwhelmed. If something dabbled in as a guilty pleasure, there is something to be said for the enriching of the creative mind, however, since the intellectual attraction phase of courtship [Read more...] about Fantasy