When I was younger, there were a lot of cheesy love movies that were being shown where themes where always rich/poor or Romeo-Juliet type storylines and they end up together despite the fact that the guy is irresponsible or their parents are going to cover their expenses which makes me feel sorry for the parents in the film. They also always expose the oldsaying "Love Will Be Enough" to give them security in their lives. The truth is that it's not enough, unless they're both willing to work their butts off or they feed on their relatives for support and the audience doesn't mind because they're the ones who aren't being mooched at. Everytime I see movies like that, I'd like to clobber the people behind it because it's so unrealistic, promotes practices that couples should do and the truth is love is also about responsibility and if you can't show you're responsibible, then you might as well forget about it. If you can't rise up to the responsibilities despite your strong emotions don't go through with it just like the song "Goodbye I Love You" by Firefall.
I may not be in a relationship, I do know that there are a lot of things both parties have to sacrifice and struggle for if they want it to work. If they can't' dp that, they might as well part ways. I've always believe that when you're willing to slug it out when things bad, then it's love. In most movies that I see, they stay together only when things are good and when it's bad, they throw in the towel only to comeback together when things have eased up. Well life isn't always fun and if you can't take the pressure, step aside and let someone else who can. In some cases, leaving someone so that that person can be with a more capable and responsible person transcends love rather than kills it because it shows you love the person so much that you want to see them happy even if it is with someone else.
In the end, you really have to be honest with yourself if you can handle it or not. Augustus MaCrae and Clara Allen of Lonesome Dove never hit it off because they were both stubborn fools. Reality has always received a bum rap because some claim that it spoils the fairytale setting but it will eventually come to play when fun time's over. However, if both are willing to focus on what lies ahead and support each other through thick and thin, then it goes from fairytale to the real deal. There's no shame letting go if you see that it won't work out, because it's better to break it off now than be miserable later on.
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