Do Movies Give Us Unrealistic Expectations about Love? YES!
Thursday, February 5th, 2009Last weekend, I went over to a close girlfriend’s apartment for a night of wine, gossip, and romantic movies. She had rented all the perennial favorites: Titanic, The Notebook, An Officer and a Gentleman. As we popped open the first bottle of Chardonnay and put in a movie, I found myself rolling my eyes at the ridiculous events that unfolded during the course of the film. Do women really fall for this stuff? The cheesy lines, the lame romantic gestures, and totally unrealistic “happily ever after” endings? As I looked over to my friend, tears welling up in her eyes, I realized that yes, women do believe that movie relationships are real. And that’s just not healthy.
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