With how dominant hookup culture is, it feels so wrong to want a love similar to what I read about and see in films. And yet, I continue to hope for what could be because the idea of a great love is more tolerable than living without one.
It seems as though romantic love is presented as being the only way we can find fulfillment — but getting to know who you truly are outside of the context of how you appear to others is essential to self development and, ultimately, self love.
