Rom-Com's are typically all the same: Guy and girl hate each other at first, then fall in love, then guy screws up, girl is mad, sadness takes over for 1/3rd of the movie, then the guy performs a giant gesture showing his remorse and love for the girl. Ending? Girl forgives guy and they live happily ever after,...I think. I wouldn't know because the credits roll before there's ever a wedding or a baby. We all drink up this idea of love and our dream is to have the magic we see on screen. There's just a couple of problems with that thinking... First of all, most of the time, relationships don't start with hatred of the other person. I realize it's more appealing and dramatic to portray a couple on screen that hates each other and then slowly falls in love. In real life, however, a relationship usually starts with a friendship, an awkward blind date, or some flirting ending with the inevitable question "Wanna grab dinner sometime?" From there, you date a...
Contrary to popular belief, marriage isn't a prison or paradise. Contrary to popular belief, your acne may never go away. Contrary to popular belief, it isn't always the man who cheats. Contrary to popular belief, love isn't a feeling. Contrary to popular belief, society isn't right about how you should think and feel and live. Contrary to popular belief,...I'm not the goody goody girl my family always thought me to be. And that's okay.