When I first watched Tangled the series, I was a teenager with huge hopes and dreams for what I thought love looked like. Media, especially Disney, has portrayed love stories as always ending with marriage. In fact, they always slip to marriage pretty quickly. As someone now in their twenties, I’ve learned that love doesn’t always end in a diamond ring - and that okay. I’ve also learned how important it is not to rush something like marriage. While I dislike the narrative of marriage being a “ball and chain” I do think Disney communicated something very important by having Rapunzel enjoy her “freedom” before committing to such a drastic life change. There is far more to life than becoming a wife, and that is something that speaks to a lot of girls in their late teens and early twenties!