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Continuing this when you actually ask people what do you love about your partner it’s not some grand thing it’s lots and lots of little things. I have a memory as a kid my father laughing and hugging my mom after she drank her coffee in the morning and sighed and said I love coffe and he said I love when you do that every morning. Love is truly noticing your partner and loving all their weird habits and gross and glorious bits. I want to read a story where that is shown but I have yet to find one like it le sigh

"Romance" (the genre) is merely a product of consumerism designed to sell a certain kind of entertainment, if someone thinks it resembles (or is) to any form of love then they don't have any idea about love.

@Manko-sensei well obviously but I just wish there was actually a romance that could actually represent well yah know romance. And I know the romance genre especially things like romantacy for booktok is just commercialized porn and romanticized toxic relationships. But our society is also so obsessed with the idea of romance and not actually romance itself we’re more in love with the idea of love then we love.

In literature you can find differences in works depending on the time and place they written, and the great lovers of literature are always alien to us. It'd be horrifying finding someone in flesh that were like that. The obsession with the idea of love is meant to keep everyone distracted from more pressing, everyday issues.

@Manko-sensei I think if many of the relationships people enjoy in media existed irl they would be horrified. I think most of them do understand that on some level but we should be a bit concerned of how media portrays relationships even if we don’t replicate it it does desensitize and romanticize it. I mean this is the least of our problems but it is interesting that our media is swinging more and more toxic and dangerous love which is a bit understandable because we had pure good characters in our fiction and have been on a trend for more and more pure bad characters