A Commentary on Modern Day Relationships and Love

I have to laugh when I think about the notion of love and relationships. It seems to me that as we grow everything gets more complicated  Including love and relationships. I laugh every time I think of all the "heart ache" I went through my teenage years desiring love, unrequited love and the like. Now it seems as I grow older the whole nuclear family the whole nuclear relationship seems so passe. So many people I know are in "non-relationship relationships" It seems to me the whole commitment love forever thing has been thrown out the window even though if you talk to people about what they want they describe the "traditional" love ideal.
It all seems so romantic in a completely unromantic sort of way.

Marriage seems like something that is so out of reach these days. At least for me who seems to be flip flop about whether or not I want to get married at all. I mean the ideal of marriage is so worn and destroyed these days what with divorce rates being so high and all. Is there really any purpose to it? Can't you just love someone with out the proclamation and paper work?  You don't even really get much of a tax break. So what is the point? I think many people struggle with this idea. I feel that romance has been deemed a silly tradition. I admittedly feel rather sad about this. I was raised on Disneys idea of love. I was told my whole life that one day my Prince would come and sweep me away and everything that was horrible would go away and we would ride off into our happily ever after. This of course has not aligned with my experience.

In my experience it is not finding someone to love that is the hard part but finding someone to love who will decide to love you back. That is where people hit brick walls and they hit them hard. We all have that perfect lover idea in our head. We skip over people who could be perfectly awesome if they do not fit that ideal. Everyone does it. I myself am often made fun of for the fact that I have a very obvious type. I can't help it. Neither can you. We all are attracted to who we are attracted to. It is no ones fault. It is not your fault for falling for someone who isn't into you and it is not their fault for not being attracted to you. That is just life. I would like to believe that one day I will find that "one." Even though I realize that that is a silly ideal it makes me happy to think of it.

This is likely a subject I will touch on often so I apologize for any redundancy on my part. I am still working out this whole idea myself. I doubt I will ever stop trying to figure it out. Also I have to ask myself.... "why are all these image in black and white".....it must mean something....right? The answer: Only if I want it to.