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romantic narratives, relationships, media psychology, narrative archetypes, cultural scripts, attachment theory 1. Introduction From Shakespeare’s sonnets to Netflix’s Bridgerton , romantic storylines have persistently captured human imagination. Approximately 65% of global box office hits include a central or subplot romance (MBFC, 2022). Yet scholarly attention often treats romance as either a trivial genre or a universal given. This paper argues that romantic storylines are complex narrative technologies —deliberately constructed sequences that model, provoke, and often prescribe relational behaviors. -WWW. SEXINSEX. NET-- -

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