To this day, when we talk about romance and beautiful, sublime love, we often remember the Renaissance, gallant chevaliers, ready to cross swords for the honor of the Beautiful Lady, performing serenades under the balcony of the mistress of their heart…
Stop! Stop, stop stop! So we really think that putting a foot of iron into another person’s belly just to impress our crush is that damn romantic? Or throwing stones at the windows of a sleeping girl so that she, sleep-deprived and angry, will listen to us in a bad voice yelling a poorly rhymed song about unearthly love - is that beautiful? It turns out, as this viral thread in the AskReddit community confirms, there are lots of outdated “romantic” techniques.
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Courtship that relies on being overly persistent. It used to be cute to hear stories of “When I first met her she wanted nothing to do with me. I showed up to her job with flowers every day until she said yes and we eventually fell in love!” ❤️ Nowadays, that’s just straight up harassment.
_forum_mod , Vija Rindo Pratama Report
Semi-related. I went out with a girl, and I would get out and open the door for her when we went out in my car. After about the second day, she complimented me on being such a gentleman and that no one has done that for her. I laughed, then I told her I forgot to tell her the inside door handle on the passenger side car was broken, so that’s the only way to open the door. Well, anyway, it worked I guess. I’ve been married to her for 12 years and she’s the mother of my two kids.
SomeGuyInSanJoseCa , Сергей Тарасов Report
Asking a grown woman’s father for her hand in marriage.
AlynConrad , Hebert Santos Report
Hitting a girl’s head with a club and dragging her to your cave.
Tenoquendil , Boomerang Official Report
Never giving up when rejected.
PhreedomPhighter , cottonbro studio Report
Having obey in the wedding vows.
suziespends , Emma Bauso Report
Forcing a kiss because you just can’t resist him/her.
SweetPsycho2024 , Vera Arsic Report
When my dad started pursuing my mom at the college that they met at, he went to the records office and got her schedule (apparently anyone could do that at the time) and waited outside of each of her classrooms to walk her to her next class. He did this for like a week. She thought it was both slightly annoying and romantic.
inflammable , Hoàng Tiến Việt Report
The entirety of the movie “The Notebook” 🤷♂️ just in how he gets his first date at the start of it " Go out with me or I’ll lay in traffic until I die" it all goes downhill from there.
Analytically_Damaged , Movieclips Report
I was led by old films to believe that romance would involve a lot more slapping men in the face and throwing drinks at them than it actually does.
ghostintheshello , movie-screencaps Report
Knowing them since they were a kid but you weren’t, like my grandad met my nan when she was 13 and he was 20, they waited til she was old enough but that’s still gross to me, like you’re just sat waiting for the child you love to be legal.
CosyBosyCrochet , pham manh Report
Ordering for your date is not romantic in any way, but used to be considered such. .
xoLiLyPaDxo , cottonbro studio Report
My paternal grandparents were Italian immigrants coming separately through Ellis Island as kids around 1910. They settled in an Italian community near Philadelphia. As family lore has it, my grandfather “kidnapped” my grandmother and kept her out over night. After that, they had to get married.
Satchi777 , lil artsy Report
Being announced at a wedding as Mr. and Mrs. John Smith. That used to be a thing and I always cringed because it felt like the bride was completely giving up her identity. Also, a woman sitting in the car after you park waiting for you to walk around and open her door.
musing_codger , Asad Photo Maldives Report
Wolf whistling.
Degsyg1969 Report
My dad went on three dates with my mom during basic training. Then proposed to her over the phone from Germany. Flew back to TX, got married, and took her to Germany (she’d never left south TX before). 63 years and still going.
Brian_Corey__ Report
A duel to the death to “win” a woman.
SocksOnHands , Daisa TJ Report
The Japanese old way of proposing which basically translates to, “Will you make me miso soup every morning, fore the rest of our lives?”.
Annacot_Steal , Amar Preciado Report
Picking a fight with the man she is dating.
IfICouldStay , Pixabay Report
A matador fighting a bull, killing it, cutting it’s ear off, and then presenting it (or a bloody handkerchief) to a woman. There was a story we used to have to read in school that included a matador fight and this happened. Most of the girls just cried the bull [died].
Clever_Mercury Report
Sending unsolicited love letters or showing up unannounced at someone’s home However, in today’s society, these actions could be perceived as intrusive or even creepy.
legend0920 , Ron Lach Report
Throwing rocks at someone’s window to sing to them in the middle of the night.
Appropriate_Ask_462 , RDNE Stock project Report
Giving her father 4 horses and a mule for her.
Chance_Cheetah_7678 , Annika Treial Report
Holding up a boom box outside her bedroom window blasting “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel.
EerieArizona , Movieclips Report
My dad followed my mom across the country. She was doing an internship where he worked and when it was over she had to go back home to Texas. They weren’t dating or anything, she had a boyfriend at the time. But my dad said he couldn’t let her get away so he jumped in his s****y car and drove to Texas.
masegesege , Dmitriy Ganin Report
Breaking into a womans home and leaving her a box of Milk Tray.
LithiuMart , Budgeron Bach Report
Unaliving yourself over a romantic heartbreak.
Ok-Dependent7444 Report
Getting married after 3 months of knowing each other.
dropofred , Pavel Danilyuk Report
Intentionally dropping a handkerchief and then someone running up to pick it up and return it to the owner. That was still a thing when I was a child.
Plain_Chacalaca , Michael Coghlan Report
Sending your hair to someone in the mail.
BrentHamp , Skitterphoto Report
My dad tried to hit on my mom by asking her a mussel recipe (which in french is very disturbing because mussel/moule is one way of saying vagina). Never understood how they went to have 3 children together.
HsJohnson88 , Julia Khalimova Report
Putting my jacket down over a puddle.
Moondoobious , Дионис Сердюков Report
Having huge tracts of land.
calamitouscamembert , Mikhail Nilov Report
Leaving an offering of purified water and honey outside your cottage on the Vernal equinox.
tenehemia , ROMAN ODINTSOV Report
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