I mean... I guess it depends on what you mean by 'force'.

[She says it reluctantly - not wanting to defend the weird-ass Valentine's pageantry going on here, but also (thanks to her own personal life experience) taking some pause at Fabian's phrasing.]

How it's playing out right now is dumb, yeah. But if an act is kind, does it matter that much if the person doing it is just going through the motions?