Every Day is a Good Day- Love and Acceptance

I really liked Wilma Mankiller's passage in theis section. She goes into the complex concept of love. She also breaks down the American idea of what love means. I think what she says really rings true as a reflection of American pop-culture.
"Love between adults is very complex. Though I have been fortunate to be involved in a relationship where I felt consumed by passion and love, I am not sure I understand the notion of romantic love as defined by American popular culture: diamond rings, roses, champagne, supid with a harp, and a big wedding. In that context, romantic love seems more like a sexual attraction and a contrived fantasy than a genuine caring for another person. Sexual attraction is a pretty wonderful thing, but by itself cannot sustain a lifelong ocmmitment. American culture expects people to marry, have children, and confine their love to a tiny nuclear family as if the love would dissipate if shared with friends, extended family, the community, the land. Love is a very powerful emotion. Can it be captured and apportioned only to socially acceptable members of the nuclear family?" - Wilma Mankiller
Chief Woman, Cherokee Nation
So why does this concept of romantic love exist in the minds of practically every American woman? Because from the time we are born we are spoon fed the tales of Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel and other damsels that have spent a lifetime waiting to be rescured from the lonely abyss of their own company by a man so they can live happily ever after in the companionship of a savior from themselves. If only the princess would've eaten the frog legs instead of kissing her slimy prince...