Five types of love stories that always strike a cord in our hearts

Whether young or old, romantic or not, everyone likes reading love stories. We have all grown up watching, reading and listening to our share of love stories from books, movies, friends and family.

Here are the five types of love stories that are always a favourite:

1.    Fairy tale love stories: Remember your childhood and the beautiful fairy tales, where there is a beautiful princess, a handsome prince and a villain separating them? For a long time, we have all wanted our love stories to be like that of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. And how many of us have been disappointed by finding our real life love story not even remotely close to the fairy tale ones?

2.     Forbidden love stories: In such love stories, you have to fight for your love because it is forbidden for various societal or personal reasons.  There is a different kind of excitement in case of forbidden love stories because we watch the hero and heroine defy every possible obstacle to be with each other.

Thinking about the Bollywood love story Dil Wale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge and Hollywood classic Titanic?

3.    Tragic love stories: Tragedy is always felt deeper than a normal happy ending to a love story. Because pain in its own melancholic way is much more powerful than pleasure. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story where the protagonists die hoping to seek union in another realm. It pains to see the two love birds separated, but they always remain as an inspiration in our young hearts.

Even the Bollywood love stories like Ram Leela, Ishaqzaade, Bajirao Mastani and a host of others, somewhere carry the tragic love story pattern of Romeo and Juliet.

4.    Erotic love stories: Not many of us will accept this, but we all love the genre of erotica. Lust, sex and passion filled love stories are stimulation to our sex drives. Almost every love story has the sex angle to it and don’t we secretly enjoy fantasizing the scenes with our own lovers?

5.    Real life love stories: No matter how many movies we watch or Mills and Boons we read, in the end, it is the real life couples and love stories that make us believe in the triumphs and failures of love. For example, watching our own parents’ love story and how they make it a forever. 

Is love marriage better than arranged marriage?

Marriage is a very popular and most followed social institution. Each individual wants to have a perfect match to spend his/ her life with, but the criteria for choosing the partner is different. In love marriages, individuals prefer to choose their partners on their own, while in case of arranged marriages prospective brides and grooms are chosen by their family or parents. There has been a debate on which is better so let’s analyze the two.

Love marriage

- Both individuals know each other already and mutually decide to spend their whole life with each other.

-Couple is responsible for its choice and they cannot shun the blame on their parents or family if the marriage fails.

-Couple is aware of each other’s likes and dislikes and understands each other well enough to want to get married to each other.


-Such marriages can help in eradicating social evils like dowry because they have the independence to take such decisions at their own level.

- Such marriages can also curb the unhealthy ritual of extravagant spending since the couple can decide not to go ahead with a lavish wedding, thus saving money and time.

Arranged marriage:

-Arranged Marriage is not a contract between two individuals alone but a confluence of two families.

-Two families involved in arranged marriages know each other very well and are assumed to be compatible with each other.

-Because there are more people involved in arranged marriage, the conflict between the couple can be effectively resolved or mitigated.

Both ways have their pros as well as cons but getting married is a lifetime decision and must be carefully weighed, reflected and considered.

 Though families are involved in most of the marriages, it’s the couple which has to live together ultimately. So, the decision to choose life partner should be left to the individuals. In the end, marriage is a gamble- whether arranged or love.

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