THE "WALK AWAY"

I love that movie where that guy has an epiphany and chases his "ex-girlfriend" as she's on her way to the airport. Oh wait, that's every  generic romantic comedy ever ♥. I just wonder if all these girls really were ready to move on or if they would have come crawling back to the man of their dreams, had he never showed up. 

Should we be walking away in the first place if we expect to be followed?
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It seems that every love story worth being told has a "walk away" scene. A moment where someone decides to move on, only to be held back at the very last second by the person they didn't know they couldn't live without. It's all very romantic and all but I just want to know if there's any truth to that. 

Are we separated by our own stubbornness?

Is it realistic to expect the person you're walking away from to come after you? In a loving and committed relationship, do we have the right to walk away from our significant other? If they upset us or did us wrong, we should stand up to them and talk about it like adults, right? And if we do walk away, they should let us keep walking because it isn't their responsibility to go fetch us. If we want to make the relationship work, we should never give up on it.

Should we be walking away in the first place if we expect to be followed? 

Or is the right to exercise the "walk away" a given? Should every secure relationship have an I Will Walk After You warranty? In a moment of anger and disappointment, we should be able to walk away from our significant other and expect them to come after us, right? I mean, considering they messed up and this is a rare occurrence, of course. It's not that we expect to be followed at the time we decide to move on. It's only when there are no footsteps behind us that the pain of walking this lonely road sets in.

So in asking you, I think I've answered this question for myself. Every girl deserves a Hollywood-like romance. In the little arguments that keep couples challenging each other, we should stay where we are. We should make our arguments, make mistakes, and apologize. We should laugh, and hug, and let the happiness in the relationship fall back into place as if nothing had happened at all. If we get hurt though, and I mean really unforgivably hurt, we walk away. And only if he comes chasing after us, with some ridiculous display of love, do we stop. Otherwise, we keep walking, keeping in mind that there are people out there waiting for you to become apart of their Hollywood love story. And we don't need them either.