Sometime between when the Summer of Love ended and the Summer of Sam began, America became a nation of cynics about love.
From Tracy McMillan
Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.
Being in a relationship is a hard, painful slog at least once a week, maybe more often - especially if you have a lot of defenses to let down, or if your parents didn't know how to love you very well.
All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine's Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn't - or hasn't yet - materialized.
I was, for some reason, born knowing how to get married.
The deal is: most men just want to marry someone who is nice to them.
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