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.