A Modern Romance?

It is Thursday evening. What is it that modern people do on a Thursday night do?
Pub-check.
Read a book-check.
Socialise-check.
After being kicked out of the television room I am resorting to watching Leap Year on my comptuter!
An average chick flick I picked up from the library, about a woman so desperate to get married to her partner of four years who is now in Ireland on a conference, takes it upon herself to travel over there to propose herself on Leap Year where it is an Irish tradition. Is this the perception society now has of women? That we are so desperate to get married that we will risk our lives to have a ring on that finger? What happened to good old fashioned love and lust and patience and surprise? Are women now percieved as those from the fiftes, where success and a career is nothing compared to a wonderful husband and a goodlooking family? I am not a femenist but are women really so short sighted?

If I had been dating a man for four years and our anniversary came and went without a single diamond then I would not go half way across the world to propose. It would occur to me that maybe he is not the marrying kind and that it is possible he doesnt want to marry me? Or however, and this may be hard to admit after spending so much time and effort over one man but is it possible that he simply isn't 'the one.' If after four years a man still had no intention on marrying me, what exactly is he waiting for? Me to change? Him to change? Him to make the most of his final single weeks or months or years? Then after all this debating over one man, you have to ask yourself is he worth it? Love is complicated but only because we question it, second guess it, disect every last detail. And that is because society has made us this way. How we should question everything a man says or does, how we should question ourselves and the movements we take to finding true love. True love is not to be questioned or found as it will find you. The love we have today is complicated, but the real love. The love that is true between two people is simple. It's either there or it isn't.