I swear there were years of my life when I dated guys who brought me flowers every time they saw me and sent me love letters in the mail and wrote poetry. Or drew me as a cool little cartoon or took me to this incredibly romantic out-of-the-way spot so we could sit there and look at the stars and trees and feel like we were inside a rom-com. And then at some point, things changed. My hunch is, as soon as “Netflix and chill” became an option, a lot of guys were, like, “Whoa, we don’t have to put in any effort at all? Rad.” And we went along with it in an attempt to be Chill Girls who didn’t
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