Love and Dating

Looking back in our time machine to our childhood, thinking about the type of movies that we watched, we realize that media has had an impact on how we perceive love. Many of them, especially Disney movies, portrait a perfect love story with the catchy phrase: “And they lived happily ever after”. It is a fact that marriages and relationships, where there is love, are still going to hit bumpy road. Other necessary factors, besides just love, are necessary in order to be successful and “… live [in harmony] ever after”. In order to achieve this harmony, we first need to understand that another Disney type of misconception is that there is such a thing as a “Prince Charming”.

Love has been a part of our human culture since the beginning of time and is a drive for many behaviors. It brings great joy and balance in our lives. Disney movies have a distorted idea of what love is. Nevertheless, they did get one right: the fact that in love we must fight dragons and enemies. Those enemies and dragons are the struggles and problems of marriage. Everybody has to go through them; there is no exception. An important part of love is knowing how to solve these struggles and learning to keep the spark alive.