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The death of romance

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Chivalry is dead, and women killed it, so the saying goes. It would be simple enough to blame women exclusively for the death of romance, but that would be too easy. Nevertheless, it's no secret that chivalry is dead and it's dragging romance down with it into an abyss of meaningless, vanilla flavoured relationships and sexual encounters, leaving a wake of cold, unfulfilled loneliness. So who killed it? Simple, women killed it, but men fucked it up in the first place. Women killed it in the sense of expecting way too much from her man where his limited beliefs extended to sending her 10,000 roses to her office reception or presenting her with a new love-wand, batteries included, thinking that it's sufficient enough to show his romantic side. She also killed it with the fear. Fear of rejection and fear that her man may misunderstand her gestures of romantic advances towards him, fear that he may not actually appreciate her effort, him overlooking her eff