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And this is where it all comes from.

And like you said, we're still obsessed with these ideas.

What happened?

Yeah, like no one was doing it like him.

Like at that point, I feel like people weren't getting as nuanced takes on love.

And also, didn't he like invent like a ton of new words as well and brought it to like actual dictionary and it was like all love based?

I've like had breakups with people and I was like, oh, yeah, so like love is blind.

Thanks, Shakespeare.

So is this kind of like the Bridgertons of like, mother, I want to marry for love, not for duty.

And it was like way more spoken about like in society rather than like secret affairs and da da da da.

Like people were genuinely like, oh no, I want to make a different choice than my ancestors.

the French poets.

Oh, we didn't even mention Geoffrey Chaucer, but he kind of played a big role in stuff like that, also to do with, like, Valentine's Day as well.

But in the Romantic era, like, who were the people who, like, really started to, like, push this idea and spread?

Because as we know, like, with culture, it's about, like...

Yeah, the media that is basically portraying these new ideas.

That sounds so ancient Grecon to me.

Like the whole like soulmates finding your other half.

Like it seems like it's almost pointing back to that.

tied to your destiny your identity your self-discovery and it put romantic love on a pedestal and this has completely shaped the way that we love today it's funny because like hearing all this i'm like part of me is like oh it's good that this happened because getting rid of those staunch rules and the hierarchy and like the societal pressure um is kind of a good thing because it's like you really tap into this true self in a way but then like another part of me is like yeah