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Love and Marriage

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...