How Romantic Ideas Destroy Your Chance at Love

... that true love end loneliness. It promised that the right partner would understand us fully without words.

For most of recorded history, people had fallen into relationships and married for logical pragmatic sorts of reasons.

Romanticism believes choosing a partner should be about letting oneself be guided by feelings, rather than practical considerations.

Romanticism has influenced us to dislike the idea of entering into a relationship for practical or financial reasons.

Romanticism believes that true love should accept everything about someone.

The salvation of love lies in overcoming a succession of errors within Romanticism.

• Discussing money up-front is not a betrayal of love.
• Realize that we are rather flawed, and our partner is too.
• We will never find everything in another person, nor they in us.
• We need to make efforts to understand one another.
• Discussing practicalities are not trivial.