Why do we still pedestal romantic love?
When we think of romantic love, we think of the flush of hormones that gives us an ooey-gooey emotion. We rarely think of the daily tasks and commitments necessary to make someone else’s well-being as important as our own.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
I think all romance is an enduring curiosity for another person.
valley of things unsaid
"Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship. But now we want our partner to still give us all these things, but in addition I want you to be my best friend and my trusted confidant and my passionate lover to boot, and we live twice as lo... See more
Aziz Ansari • Modern Romance
- People tend to be bad at knowing what they want from a relationship
- Society has it all wrong and gives us terrible advice
- Our Biology Is Doing Us No Favors
Tim Urban • How to Pick Your Life Partner
For the pursuit of romance to carry any shame is especially odd in 2025…Instead of just acknowledging that totally commonplace aspiration, though, we romanticize serendipity: People hope that love will fall into their lap so they never need to debase themselves by seeking it…The culture tells us…We should have a partner, but we shouldn’t want one.
People always seem to fall in love with an image first, never the substance, for to know the substance of man would spell the end of the human race within a generation. Well, perhaps not. But certainly the end of marriage, and not long thereafter, the end of civilization.