The "hook up generation" is honestly killing me. We "hook up" before we go on dates and we don't talk to each other unless we have a little liquid courage running through our bodies.

Since when did we decide as a society we have to have sexual encounters before we get to know someone's personality? It should be the complete opposite.

I have always been a hopeless romantic. I appreciate a bouquet of flowers or a romantic date night, but those come few and far between. Nowadays, I'm satisfied if I receive a "good morning" text. I shouldn't be happy to receive a text message and cry because I get flowers once in a very blue moon.

Instead of going up to a stranger, saying "hi" and asking them for their name and number, we go up to a stranger, not always sober, ask for their number and then make out. Since when did we decide as a society guys didn't have to hold the door open and let the woman go first?

As a little girl, I would ask my grandfather what he did to court my grandmother (and if you're already wondering what "courting" is then you have a lot of work to do). He would constantly show how courageous he is by cliff jumping where my grandmother was sunbathing. My grandmother really couldn't give him any less attention, but eventually she agreed to a date.

I can still see the love he has for her in his 90-year-old eyes.

He went to my great-grandfather and asked his permission to take her to a dance. Not too long after their first date he was back in front of my great-grandfather telling him he would be moving to Hawaii with his brother to work in a coffee bean field. My great-grandfather told him he could forget taking my grandmother. So for months they wrote each other letters professing their love. How romantic.

Chivalry is dead. And we should mourn its death.

I understand we want to be independent women, we don't need men to do stuff for us and we can make decisions for ourselves. I like having my own independence and mind, but I love when a guy tells me where we're going on a date, picks me up at my house and walks me to the door to give me a good night kiss.

Every guy should be giving this kind of attention to each woman he asks out on a date. We're worth the time and energy.

You know the saying, "Behind every guy's smile there's a woman who put it there?" Well if a guy wants to be happy then he needs to make his woman happy and that means opening the door.