Do Love and Romance Still Exist?

Do Love and Romance Still Exist?

Yeah. But you’ve got to squint to see it. Somewhere under the rubble of half-naked “I’m healing” selfies and breakup playlists on repeat, love is still breathing. Faintly. But it’s there.

It’s definitely bad out there, no denying that. But the people doing it wrong are the ones screaming the loudest. Divorce rates are actually down from twenty, thirty years ago. You’d never guess it. Back then, people didn’t broadcast their failures. There was no stage, no algorithm waiting to reward pain with attention.

If a marriage fell apart, it fell apart quietly. Maybe your aunt mentioned it at Christmas, maybe you ran into one of them at the store and saw the empty finger. That was it.

Now? Someone you haven’t talked to since high school is posting a “fresh start” thirst trap with a caption about “finding herself.”

Everybody’s auditioning for sympathy. Nobody’s working on themselves. Love isn’t dead, it’s just hiding from the noise. Romance didn’t disappear; it just stopped competing with clickbait.

Think about it, are you more likely to go home and write a Yelp review if you had a nice dinner and decent service, or if there was a bug in your pasta and the waiter told you to go f*ck yourself? Negativity travels faster because it makes people feel something. It’s the same with love, the happy ones don’t post. The miserable ones never shut up.

These days, people don’t want a partner. They want a fanbase. They want applause every time they announce a new boundary or self-discovery. Relationships have become PR campaigns, you’re either marketing perfection or spinning the breakup.

But every once in a while, you see it. Two people in the corner of a bar, laughing at something stupid. A couple holding hands with no phones in sight. That’s where love lives now, in the quiet corners that don’t need validation.

So yeah, love still exists. You just won’t find it trending.