How technology has changed romance
Michelle Granoski says technology enabled her courtship with her husband, Shawn. The couple met on a dating site.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Technology isn't killing off courtship as much as it's redefining what it looks like
- A new generation is adopting digital models for romantic communication
- Student: "A lot of our relationship has been e-mailing and texting and Facebook messaging"
- Video producer: Mystery associated with romance is "not as strong as it used to be"
(CNN) -- When it comes to romance, texting is often seen as a bare-minimum form of communication. It's fine for firming up Wednesday night dinner plans, but for expressing heartfelt sentiments? Not so much.
That was made pretty clear last week when reality TV star Kristin Cavallari had to defend her fiancé, Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, from those who poked fun at her story of their second engagement.
"I was in the airport, leaving Chicago," Cavallari, 26, tells E! News in an upcoming reality special about her nuptials. "We had just spent however many days together and we were texting and somehow it came up, like, 'Oh, shall we get married?' We're like, 'Yeah, OK.'"
The couple were first engaged in 2011 but split up briefly before reconciling that same year. Even so, Cutler faced criticism over what many saw as a too casual digital proposal. Cavallari later pleaded on Twitter for people to "stop bashing Jay" because he had proposed earlier in Mexico "and it was very romantic."
In the digital age, technology isn't killing courtship. But for many young couples, it's redefining what romance looks like.
These days we often text instead of speak, use FaceTime instead of having face-to-fac
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