RE: Why Does No One Change the Incorrect Relationship Narrative?
October 3, 2016 at 12:27 pm
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2016 at 12:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 3, 2016 at 11:54 am)InquiringMind Wrote: From these violated expectations, we can extract the cultural narrative of relationships: you meet someone, you "fall in love," you complete each other, and you live happily ever after without the need for compromise or work, and the happy love chemicals will last forever. You will be "together forever."That's the hope, yup. Hope in one hand, shit in the other. The cultural narrative of relationships is also a narrative of lovelessness, unfaithfulness, regret, remorse, loss, unhappiness, addiction, and terminus. The narrative encompasses the breadth, our hopes only refer to the best case scenario from within that narrative.
Quote:What do you think?Well, I don't know if the narrative is wrong, some people do get one or more (maybe all, IDK) of those things we hope for..thus their inclusion in the narrative.....so much as our hopes are unreasonably restricted to a narrow set of instances within it. Then again, they;re hopes, do they have to be reasonable? IDK.
And if you think that this hypothesis is wrong, how do you explain the fact that most romantic relationships fall far short of people's expectations?
Girl problems?
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