Interesting question, right? The movies mostly ignore them. Books tend to skip over them, too. And maybe that's part of the reason we sometimes have such a skewed idea of what love is supposed to look like. Because the most important parts of love are often the most boring. Lost love letters spanning decades are touching. Racing through an airport before someone gets on a plane is exciting. Bursting through the doors of a church to stop a wedding and declare your undying love? That's the stuff stories are made of. But stopping at the store on your way home because you know someone's had a bad day and their favorite candy might make it a little better? That's not exactly going to sell movie tickets. In fact, somewhere along the way, we've started calling things like that the "bare minimum." But isn't life mostly made up of our imagined standard of "bare minimum"? It's making the coffee. Picking up the prescription. Cooking dinner when you...