What’s your definition of romantic?

I used to be one of those people who, as a hopeless romantic, believed in the way Hollywood portrayed it in movies and television.

Nowadays we have all these self proclaimed relationship experts that are dividing the romantic landscape between “mystery/chase” and just being plain honest/up front. On top of that, the older I get, the less “games” I want to play when it comes to finding a romantic partner, so I end up falling into the latter camp.

All of this adds up and has created the situation I put myself into today where I’m content on my own (and have been for probably close to 10 years now) and I feel like I’ve lost what it truly means to be “romantic” because people, and society as a whole, have twisted it beyond my own personal recognition.

I don’t have time for relationship mind games, or trying to figure out what even really qualifies as romantic anymore because romance requires two people and I just want to do my own thing. I’ll just keep up the kindness and respect I usually do, and maybe someday someone will figure out how to break through to me again.

(I’d like to reiterate, I’m content on my own and this is in no way a complaint or cry for help from strange internet romance “guru’s”. I’m simply trying to answer the prompt.)