When you’re single, it’s easy to be a cynic about everything to do with love. If you’re really lonely, social media can seem to be an endless string of soft launches or engagement announcements, and real life full of couples eager to shove their PDA in your face. It’s easy to take exposure to romance the wrong way, especially if you’ve had some bad experiences of it. 

Things don’t have to be that way, though. Done right, love is one of those few beautiful things that make life worth living. Even the often misanthropic arena of memes can get behind this every so often, as evidenced by this list. Whether you’re happily coupled up, bitterly single, or still on the lookout for that romance of a lifetime, you’ve got to hand it to these memes for how great they make being in love look. Guess it’s time to brave the backwaters of Hinge again.