The overemphasis on love

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[...] These days, especially at a younger age, we often spend less time thinking about love and more about sex. Instead of love being the ultimate goal of a relationship, sex seems to have overtaken it as a priority. Those who are unable to find love but are capable of finding sex are not looked down upon and are generally accepted in social situations. Those who are not able to find sex can face many thoughts of insecurity, low self-esteem, as well as other problems. [...]

[...] Let us say, for example, that we have a guy who is currently single and lives in our culture. He watches the movies, he is involved in pop culture, and he is well aware of the importance placed on love. Many of his friends have girlfriends or are involved in some sort of relationship with them, while he at the moment has nothing. He may have had such relationships in the past, however for the moment, he is alone. There is a great deal of pressure on him to find someone to be with, and this pressure can come from all sides. [...]

[...] It would be a world that is not in line with the world we live in today. Love between people is an evolutionary response to finding an excellent mate, and people who experience this appreciate it as amazing, sensual, and incomparable to anything else. Such an experience is worth talking about, it is worth writing music about, and it is worthy of making its way into pop culture. Despite the feelings of loneliness and disappointment that we feel from time to time, in the end, the overemphasis placed on love is created by us, not by and we should embrace it as part of our biological programming. [...]

[...] The overemphasis on love In our culture, love and romance tend to be a very important focus of everyday life. Almost everywhere we look, we run into ads that promote love and sex, we watch movies in which the prime themes are love and romance, and we are pressured in various ways by friends and family to find someone and love them. This idea of loving somebody else is often taken to an extreme, and at times, it can result in feelings of loneliness and despair. [...]