If People Were Committed To Growing In Virtue, Dating Would Be So Much Better

Our understanding of the meaning of love and commitment is heavily influenced by the depictions of relationships we were given growing up. Often, we relied on our parents’ or caregivers’ relationship to inform us of what romance looks like, whether or not it was a good example. But just as often, we relied on what classic romance stories taught us about love. Movies like Romeo + Juliet, The Notebook, and Titanic were what the young women of today looked to when attempting to make sense of this elusive thing that everyone called “love.”