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Reality Check: Romance and Romanticism behind a Good, Loving Relationship “And they live happily ever after,†is one of the most tragic sentence in literature. Joshua Liebman Introduction It started when we were kids, a damsel in distress and the prince charming to the rescue and the ending is always happy. Princesses are always beautiful, kind, gentle and will always be in the situation where they are needed to be saved while the knight in shining armor would always be handsome, charming, and rich, gentleman, brave, strong and so on. Whatever the twists and turns of the story it can be expected that this is the last thing we will remember, that in the end the perfect couple lives happily ever after. When we were kids we do not entirely know how to discriminate what`s real from what is not. Hence while we were starting to create a notion of ourselves, others and the world itself, we cannot help but to incorporate what the fairy tales told us about the world. This primarily influences the expectations we develop and gather towards mate selection, relationships and living with our significant other. We expect, consciously or unconsciously, a happily ever after in our own life story. Body We have been poisoned by fairy tales. -Anais Nin In his ideas on love and relationships, Leo Buscaglia was able to make us realize that there is a need to re-evaluate our conception of being in a relationship. He discussed important as...