Dear Next Generation: Bring Back Real Romance and Love to Your Life

Dear Next Generation: Bring Back Real Romance and Love to Your Life
Dear Next Generation, an advice column from readers to young people. Photo by Shutterstock
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Dear Next Generation:

You have been witnessing a cheap, dollar store version of love in our current culture. From TV shows to music to popular magazines—what is portrayed looks like the most fantastic love, but in the end, it’s only a fantasy. It isn’t real. The quality of our lives is based upon the quality of our relationships. There are ways to have quality, romantic, loving relations with people, but it isn’t what they are selling in Hollywood—those are dollar store relations that are cheap, come apart at the seams, and they don’t last very long.