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 It turns out, as thisviral threadin the AskReddit community confirms, there are lots of outdated “romantic” techniques.More info:RedditThis post may includeaffiliate links.
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 It turns out, as thisviral threadin the AskReddit community confirms, there are lots of outdated “romantic” techniques.
More info:Reddit
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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.
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.
Asking a grown woman’s father for her hand in marriage.
Okay, let’s remember one of the most romantic stories of the Middle Ages about the unearthly and unrequited love of the greatItalian poetDante Alighieri for the young and beautiful Beatrice, to whom he dedicated many sonnets and poems. Now let’s get a little dry reality: Dante was 19 years old when he first saw 8-year-old Beatrice, but many years later she married another man.
Hitting a girl’s head with a club and dragging her to your cave.
Never giving up when rejected.
Having obey in the wedding vows.
Forcing a kiss because you just can’t resist him/her.
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.
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.
“Of course, each time has its own viewpoints, and what was completely acceptable a couple of centuries or even a couple of decades ago, today we consider absolutely strange or even creepy,” says Irina Matveeva, apsychologistand certified NLP specialist, whomBored Pandaasked for a comment here. “The evolution of our views is no less impressive than technological progress.”“We shouldn’t forget that morality in theold dayswas completely different and, for example, any European noblewoman of the Renaissance would have ceased to respect herself if she hadn’t had a couple of no less noble admirers who would have fought a duel for her attention. This was the unspoken etiquette of that time. Today it seems strange to us, but… well, maybe in a hundred years our habit ofsticking to TikTokwill look just as weird…" Irina presumes.
“Of course, each time has its own viewpoints, and what was completely acceptable a couple of centuries or even a couple of decades ago, today we consider absolutely strange or even creepy,” says Irina Matveeva, apsychologistand certified NLP specialist, whomBored Pandaasked for a comment here. “The evolution of our views is no less impressive than technological progress.”
“We shouldn’t forget that morality in theold dayswas completely different and, for example, any European noblewoman of the Renaissance would have ceased to respect herself if she hadn’t had a couple of no less noble admirers who would have fought a duel for her attention. This was the unspoken etiquette of that time. Today it seems strange to us, but… well, maybe in a hundred years our habit ofsticking to TikTokwill look just as weird…" Irina presumes.
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.
Ordering for your date is not romantic in any way, but used to be considered such. .
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.
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.
Wolf whistling.
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.
A duel to the death to “win” a woman.
The Japanese old way of proposing which basically translates to, “Will you make me miso soup every morning, fore the rest of our lives?”.
Picking a fight with the man she is dating.
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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].
Throwing rocks at someone’s window to sing to them in the middle of the night.
Giving her father 4 horses and a mule for her.
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.
Breaking into a womans home and leaving her a box of Milk Tray.
Unaliving yourself over a romantic heartbreak.
Getting married after 3 months of knowing each other.
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.
Putting my jacket down over a puddle.
Having huge tracts of land.
Leaving an offering of purified water and honey outside your cottage on the Vernal equinox.
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