He smiled, but it didn't quite reach his eyes. "Right. Low stakes."
From Shakespearean sonnets to Hallmark tropes, from K-dramas to the carefully filtered "couples goals" on Instagram, we have replaced the messy, boring, terrifying reality of human attachment with the high-fructose corn syrup of narrative fantasy. The result is a generation that knows how to want love, but has forgotten how to be in love.