I don't.

Is anyone truly still blinded by the traditional romances anymore?  Was anyone in the first place? 

The engagement ring:  a symbol of not only your love but of the bond you share with one another and with God.  Should it be something picked out for you?  Should the man truly get down on one knee and propose it to you along with his hand?  If it's going to be worn by you should you not have the say in what it is?  Or do we give all the power over to the one we love?  Should this union not be thoughtfully discussed and mutually decided on before the proposal ever is made? 

The religious tie: If you don't believe in God can you still get married?  Would an atheist be denied the same rights as gay couples are denied?  Would they be afforded the same rights as a straight couple would be in the eyes of the law?  Could they infact get married even though the purpose and meaning is lost?  What holds a marriage together in the first place?  Is it the devotion held onto by the two lovers or the symbolism of the tradition?  What keeps the two coming back year after year?  Is it the cooking, the kids or the fear of being alone in the last years of your life?

True love:  a powerful drug injected into the soul that has the ability to blind its victims.  The side affect of such a drug is quite obvious and rather infectious.  It spreads like the virus it becomes, weaving in and out of people's psychy.  The heart is the first to go.  It weakens with every beat and against all reasoning from the second muscle it infects, the brain, it continues to pump hazardous fumes throughout the body.  The brain so tirelessly tries to send doubt and understanding but the virus takes hold and buries it too.  We become entraped in this cocoon-type haze that will undeniably end our lives as we once knew it and births out a new being in not quite the same proportions.

I do hope that there are the romances in everyone's life still.  What else could possibly be the point?