Disappointment expectations as a Cultural Practice: Romantic Love Dreams and Disenchantment in Life of Young Czech Women

This thesis is focused on the form of contemporary love relationships and the posibility of love disappointment. The aim of the thesis is to explore the connection between dreaming about romantic love and the love young women get in a real love relationship. Text is based primarily on theory of Anthony Giddens and Eva Illouz, who talk about romantic love in the connection with a process of modernization and the form of relationship in modern societies. In contemporary societies romantic love comes into conflict with sexual freedom and intimacy becomes a consumer product thanks to the mass media and the leisure industry. Contemporary relationships are maintained only if they satisfy both partners. The conclusion of the form of relationships nowadays and the role of romantic love in current relationships was achieved via qualitative interviews. Young women long for long-term love relationships based on mutual intimacy with their partner and have romantic expectations. However, real relationships nowadays are being established sensing that can be ended anytime, if one of the partners decides, thus relationships are fragile end newly committed relationships are being only temporary