I like a good romance as much as the next person, but can we just tell a story where there isn't a romance?

I think in few hundred years people will look back on our time period and say we culturally are obsessed with love stories.

This story was originally written so we don't have the complex variety of experiences that comes with choosing and building a romantic partnership because that creates too many variables to tell the story. Although an unpopular choice for western audiences, it was a practical one.

So I'm going strong against this one.