When I was a little girl, I adored everything that there was to be a traditional woman (as portrayed by the media). I watched romantic movies to see how relationships could look like, read love stories for how love would feel like, and basked in the glow of store fronts to gaze at the mannequins in their beautifully detailed dresses. Now that I'm older, I see that love isn't like how it is in the movies, poems don't quite capture the all-encompassing feeling of love, and the