- sudden
- uncontrollable
- “swept me off my feet”
- you “fall” in love
- alone against the world
- forbidden love
- stranger
- love at first sight
- the one and only one for me
- live happily ever after
- the male as a rescuer (“Cinderella complex”)
- free and voluntary (not arranged)
- don’t need to work out problems
- everything automatically works out

- historical development of the concept of romantic love.
- romantic love is a historically recent concept.
- romantic love was not historically tied to marriage (only recently tied to marriage).