There are films, books, songs, poems and even holidays dedicated to love. However, the concept of love that seems greatly glorified by our own society is also strongly bound by expectations stemming from ignorance or beliefs. These restrictions are reflected in those that marriage appears to face due to the strongly held notion that marriage is the primary outcome of love. However, as many authors such as Meghan O'Rourke point out, the marriage appears to have aged and may need to be renewed or replaced in some way. (O'Rourke, 2013) Some of the suggestions discussed in O'Rourke's review, "The Marriage Trap," seem a bit radical, but these suggestions should not be ignored. Although it would be difficult to fully implement a new standard, the concept of a more liberal form of marriage that removed restrictions from its infrastructure would create a less oppressive global environment that would allow love to flourish more openly . The failures of love as a whole are closely linked to the failures of marriage in our society, and we should be more honest about these failures because it would reveal the disconnect that love and marriage have always had between them and could enable changes that would allow society to eliminate the roots of misogyny and discrimination while allowing true love to be expressed.