How many cishet dudes love romance? It is very difficult to tell, since the assumed number (“none”) is clearly unlikely, and the brash teasing makes it unpleasant for many to reveal themselves, and whose business is it anyhow?
This romance lover mostly reads them on his cell phone. He got started when a girlfriend of his would read him the sexually explicit parts of her semi-smutty novels about Scotsmen. (Always Scotsmen, for some reason.) He liked romantic comedy films and then started to enjoy super-sad foreign romantic tragedies.
Eventually, that girlfriend moved on, partly because he was getting too serious and she wasn’t sure he was “the one.” Now he dates casually, also looking for his “the one.” More than once, though, he’s ghosted a woman once she figures out that he seems to mostly be interested in having a beard for going to “chick flicks.”
So he works his way through life, loving romance and hoping deep down that the powerful fusion of two souls he always reads about could happen in real life. He’s afraid to settle, afraid to miss out, but also afraid that he’s chasing something that can’t be real.
I Love Romance, of course I can engage in witty banter, tell harmless flirting from the serious kind, discuss the minutiae of Sandra Bullock’s film oeuvre.
Substitutes for: Connect.
Feature: Protects Isolation.
Feature: Coerces Isolation.