what's your secret conspiracy theory about romance?

[Holmbo]

Since most of us don't understand romantic attraction or relationship like that it's easy to make up explanations for why people act like they do.
Do you have any theories that you know logically isn't true... but still they feel like they are true sometimes

 

 

 

[roboticanary]

I'm convinced that people don't really like dates as a romantic thing. If someone goes out to a restaurant with a lover they're just hungry and too lazy to cook.

[Atlamillia Pixie]

Valentine's Day was invented to get people to spend money and stimulate the economy after holiday season spending dies down in early January (at least in western cultures, I'm not super sure that's a universal thing).

[Nessa]

For me people who can't live without romance are people with no life, no passion no hobbies, who don't know what to do with their lives, and are scared to be alone.

[Ch0c0]

Romance was invented to promote durable 1 to 1 unions when/where convenience marriage arranged by families are no longer a vital necessity.

[alto]

People just like ruining their friendships.

[nonmerci]

People seek romance because the only way sex is tolerated is if it is corelated to a romantic relationship.

The problem is : it does't fit the asexual community.

[Holmbo]

On 6/14/2021 at 2:12 PM, nonmerci said:

People seek romance because the only way sex is tolerated is if it is corelated to a romantic relationship.

The problem is : it does't fit the asexual community.

Maybe if we change it to: sex and/or emotional intimacy

[tonks416]

If we're going with totally impossible conspiracy theories....

Romance in novels exists solely to distract the heroes from their world-saving goals. Totally a plot by all the fictional supervillains out there...

[roboticanary]

The idea that multiple people should live together was a scam created by cats to make it more likely there would be someone around to feed them.