I was writing a story earlier tonight and while trying to avoid some cliches, I was trying to figure out a romance dynamic between two characters. I was starting to hammer it out as guy likes girl but girl is oblivious AF so she doesn't know it but a lot of their friends and most of the girl's siblings realize guy likes girl. It's even to the point where girl's sister teases them about it mostly to freak out guy but girl just thinks it's her sister being her sister. And as I was reading it to myself I went "this is too cliche". So I started to try and rework it but no matter how I reframed it, it still felt cliche to me. And that got me thinking, is just all romance considered cliche now? A lot of my friends think that most romance in movies is cliche unless the girl rejects the guy to be a strong independent woman. So what are your thoughts?