Well, it didn't seem to be a romantic convention that you were familiar with, so I was giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming that you just aren't a romance-genre sort of person. My mom hates genre romance (I, on the other hand, am quite likely to read it in between my non-fiction stuff, to lighten everything up a bit).

I'm not, really, but I read a lot of the stuff in my my youth, and still love novels and series that combine romance with plot.

And I wasn't using that moment to argue against D/R, but to demonstrate that the Doctor knew that Rose had to eventually leave him.