Are K-dramas quietly ruining your real-life relationship standards?

• RT

  Ravi T.6d ago

  I broke up with a perfectly good man because he didn't 'wrist grab and pull me out of traffic' energy. K-dramas did that to me and I'm not joking.

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• M

  Morgan4d ago

  K-dramas didn't raise my standards, they showed me what was missing and I'm grateful, not delusional.

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• R

  Reese4d ago

  The grand gestures aren't the danger. It's the idea that someone will fix you and chase you forever with zero effort on your part.

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• HL

  Hana L.4d ago

  If a TV show 'ruined' your standards your standards were made of paper to begin with.

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• QR

  Quinn R.4d ago

  I just want a man who looks at me the way male leads look at the female lead eating ramyeon at 2am. Is that so wrong?

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• R

  Ravi5d ago

  Honestly K-dramas raised my standards for how a man should TREAT me, not what he should own. That's a good thing actually.

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• LT

  Liam T.5d ago

  There's a difference between 'I want kindness' and 'I want a chaebol heir to build me a library.' One of those is the problem.

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• E

  Elena5d ago

  The bar isn't unrealistic, the bar is BASIC. Communication, loyalty, remembering things — men just decided that's 'too much'.

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• NB

  Nina B.5d ago

  Every genre sells a fantasy. Action movies make men think they can fight. Nobody panics about that one, funny how that works.

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• R

  Reese5d ago

  My standards aren't from K-dramas, they're from wanting a man who texts back. The drama just put words to it.

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• R

  Reese5d ago

  I watched 'Crash Landing on You' and looked at my boyfriend like 'you've never once landed a paraglider in my heart.' We broke up. Worth it.

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• LS

  Liam S.5d ago

  It's fiction. Nobody thinks rom-coms are real except the people who need a reason to be single. Enjoy the fantasy and touch grass after.

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