Dear Next Generation: You have been witnessing a cheap, dollar store version of love in our current culture. From TV shows to music to popular magazines—what is portrayed looks like the most fantastic love, but in the end, it’s only a fantasy. It isn’t real. The quality of our lives is based upon the quality of our relationships. There are ways to have quality, romantic, loving relations with people, but it isn’t what they are selling in Hollywood—those are dollar store relations that are cheap, come apart at the seams, and they don’t last very long. Real love is patient. It takes time. A gardener plants a seed, waters the soil, pulls the weeds, and waits for the fruit to grow and ripen. If he picks the fruit before it is ready, it’s hard and sour and not good for eating. Patience. When you fall in love with someone and …