In honor of Valentine's Day tomorrow, I wanted to talk about the romance tropes that you've grown to adore. For me, I love what I call the "super couple" trope. It has a lot of elements of friends to lovers, but better.
It all started with my growing dislike of the "will they or won't they" trope that's popular on TV today. The trope has its place, don't get me wrong. It just seems like every show wants to stretch out the "yearning" between their two leads for as many seasons as possible. It's exhausting.
The trope is basically when two people start acting like a couple out the gate and their dynamic just gets better with time. Sure, they might date other people prior to getting together, but they frequently have dinner/movie dates with their partner, know everything about the other, and by the time they start having s*x - being a couple is second nature to them.