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What is supposed to be romantic, but just bloody isn’t?

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SmidgenofaPigeon · 29/04/2021 10:59

A Semisonic song just came on the radio and brought me back to when I was 18, and the slightly-hippy lovely guy I was seeing at the time used to play this on his guitar and sing to me. The whole song, then another song after it. Sometimes another one after that. I’d sort of sit on the bed or hover in front of him while he played his little concert just for me and smile along, but I found it excruciating. If he didn’t want to kiss me he wanted to be singing to me. It was so boring and I never knew how I was supposed to be reacting.

I couldn’t hack it so we didn’t last, and my friend was horrified and said what a lovely romantic thing that was that he did and how awful I was for ending it 😂

Has anyone got any ‘romantic’ things to add that were just a bit boring/awkward?

OP posts:
waterlego · 29/04/2021 11:02

Oh gosh, that would have made me cringe, even as a teenager.

Flowers. I mean, I like flowers and sometimes it’s nice to have fresh flowers in the house but I have just never really associated them with romance or anything vaguely emotional. I would always appreciate being given some flowers but wouldn’t find it ‘romantic’.

Pleasedontputthatthere · 29/04/2021 11:02

Ha - popular opinion!

Pleasedontputthatthere · 29/04/2021 11:02

Sharing a bath - fuck right off.

Yorkshireteaalwayswins · 29/04/2021 11:01

I was just about to say sharing a bath! Unless you have a massive tub, its just cramped and uncomfortable Grin

35andThriving · 29/04/2021 11:00

Sharing a bath.