Obnoxious Things Hopeless Romantics Are Tired Of Hearing

Hopeless romantics often get a bad rap and are seen as unrealistic when it comes to finding love. There’s nothing wrong with holding out for true love, but it’d be nice if non-believers would stop saying these obnoxious things to us:

  1. “You’re just in love with love.” Just in love with love? As if that is such a small, unimportant thing to be in love with…
  2. “You’re too mushy.” You mean, I show love to the people I love? Gee… what a terrible thing to do.
  3. “You’re unrealistic.” Why assume that large displays of affection are some impossible thing to do? Instead, people should put more time and energy into showing their love than being cynical about other people who do.
  4. “You’ve seen The Notebook too many times.” It gets tiring hearing people complain about you watching and crying over the same romantic movies. As if we needed to be reminded, again, that another hopeless romantic is hard to come by, now the movies we seek to escape with are being criticized!
  5. “Life isn’t a fairytale.” Well, duh, but there’s nothing wrong with having an idea of what romance is supposed to look like, right? Fairytales are just a cheat sheet.
  6. “Why do you think everything is cute?” Because when you love love, everything IS cute! It’s a beautiful way to live. You should try it sometime.
  7. “You’re crying again?” A hopeless romantic is one of the most empathetic people you’ll ever meet. This means that when things are even a little sad, there’s crying… and when things are incredibly happy, there’s crying.
  8. “There isn’t always a happy ending.” There is if you believe there is and even if it doesn’t look how you imagine it would. It’s all a matter of perception and the non-hopeless-romantics are missing out on it.
  9. “It’s just sex.” No sex is just sex to a hopeless romantic. Sex is a way to show love to someone, so casual sex just doesn’t make sense to them.
  10. “You need to grow up.” This is one of the most hurtful things to say to a hopeless romantic because it implies that being who they are isn’t up to par with being a mature adult. And that’s just not true.
  11. “You fall in love too much.” This is probably true, but it’s an uncontrollable part of who a hopeless romantic is. They fall in love with almost every one and this usually results in getting hearts broken. That is, until the hopeless romantic finds another hopeless romantic and they live happily ever after…
Kasandra Lynn is a freelance writer and blogger living in a small town. She is an aspiring novelist with a BA in English, has completed 2 novels, writes for multiple non-profit organizations and gets her blog, FairlyChic.com, published in a weekly column for her local newspaper.
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