If you are writing your own story, these "tropes" are the building blocks of most successful romance plots: 7 Texts That Make Them Want More with You

A couple that ends the story exactly as they began it is a failed story. Love, by its very nature, changes us. In a well-written narrative, Character A challenges Character B’s worldview, and vice versa. Han Solo goes from mercenary loner to selfless general because of Leia. Elle Woods becomes a serious lawyer not in spite of her romantic setback, but because of the agency she gains from it.