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Don’t be afraid to go to bed angry.

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Forget the engagement rings, the weddings and the grand events of romanticized love that occur before getting married. The real test of true love begins later, when that first kid arrives.

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Why has Disney never portrayed women as independent instead of hopeless romantics? Furthermore, why do they give little girls who admire these princesses, hope that true love exists for everyone?

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We use “forever” to sweeten the numbered days to feel the intensity as if at any point from now, a quake will happen to denigrate the word. Then forever is gone.

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We already know that the bounds of that narrow definition are challenged regularly, but it seems that many people forget, or perhaps don’t realize, that true love does not need to be solely between significant others — or that others other than “significant others” can be significant and true.

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Society continuously portrays a wedding as just that: a wedding. A one-day ordeal filled with pretty dresses and champagne toasts that ends after the reception, rather than the first day of the rest of your life with your spouse.

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But maybe Disney did get something right: patience… and the importance of at least one pair of extra kick-ass shoes to make the waiting worthwhile.

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Every one of these men is in now in prison for domestic violence, tax evasion, or third-degree douchebaggery.

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The first morning I woke in your bed, you kissed my neck, very softly, thinking I was still asleep; I wish I’d let you know that I was not.

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I don’t know if we’ll ever have kids or a house but we’ll have adventures. We might never buy Tupperware but there’s no one else I’d rather go tubing with.