What Your Favorite Romance Trope Says About Your Love Life

The types of romance stories you gravitate towards reveal a lot about your ideas regarding love, relationships, and dating. Here’s what your favorite romance trope says about your love life.

Best-Friends-To-Lovers 

The best-friends-to-lovers romance trope is exactly what it sounds like–two people who were convinced they were “just friends” discover there is something so much deeper between them, something romantic. Love was hiding in plain sight, that’s all!

If the best-friends-to-lovers is your favorite romance trope, you want to really know someone before committing. You believe the strongest foundation for romance is friendship. You want to have fun with your person. You want them to know you better than anyone else. You aren’t willing to settle for a lover who isn’t your best friend too.

Enemies-To-Lovers 

On the flip side of best-friends-to-lovers is the enemies-to-lovers relationship romance trope. When it comes to the enemies-to-lovers romance trope, two people find themselves in a hateful dynamic where love seems impossible ever to happen. But that’s where they’re so wrong. The hatred is just misplaced passion, that’s all!

If the enemies-to-lovers trope is your fave, you are a hopeless romantic! How could you not be when you believe love could happen in the most unlikely places, between the two most unlikely hearts?

Workplace Rivals

The workplace rivals romance trope is an extension of enemies to lovers but in an office setting.

If the workplace rivals romance trope is your favorite, you work. Like, a lot. Probably too much! You’ve been spending so much of your time climbing corporate ladders, designing pitch decks, crying under your desk, and doing everything in your power to earn a raise that you can’t even consider entertaining a relationship or any romance at all.

Ambition is a blessing but it can also be a curse if it gets in the way of IRL matters like falling in love. There’s more to life than work. Find it. Go fall in love.

Slow Burn

A slow-burn romance is a love that takes its time; often a lot longer than we’d expect. The people involved usually have some sort of obstacle in the way of them truly pursuing their feelings but eventually, those barricades don’t matter as much as the power of love.

If the slow-burn romance trope is your fave, you’ve definitely been stuck in your fair share of situationships and almost relationships. Waiting for love and commitment feels like second nature to you. Remember, though, that you deserve someone who is all in and doesn’t act wishy-washy about you.

Fake Relationship To True Love

The fake relationship to true love romance trope is a classic, and if this is your favorite, you’re afraid to be upfront about how you feel because you’re terrified of rejection.

You are slow to fall and very protective of your heart because you’ve been hurt before; in fact, you’ve been hurt a lot. The heartbreak you’ve endured has made you put up walls, walls that you have designed to be incredibly difficult for love interests to break down.

While it’s okay to be intentional with who you let in, you need to remember that keeping love out will only make you lonelier and your ache even deeper. Be more open to loving, and being loved.