Rom-coms 'spoil your love life'

[GURPS]

Rom-coms 'spoil your love life'

Watching romantic comedies can spoil your love life, a study by a university in Edinburgh has claimed.​

Rom-coms have been blamed by relationship experts at Heriot Watt University for promoting unrealistic expectations when it comes to love.

They found fans of films such as Runaway Bride and Notting Hill often fail to communicate with their partner.

Many held the view if someone is meant to be with you, then they should know what you want without you telling them.

Psychologists at the family and personal relationships laboratory at the university studied 40 top box office hits between 1995 and 2005, and identified common themes which they believed were unrealistic.

The university's Dr Bjarne Holmes said: "Marriage counsellors often see couples who believe that sex should always be perfect, and if someone is meant to be with you then they will know what you want without you needing to communicate it.

"We now have some emerging evidence that suggests popular media play a role in perpetuating these ideas in people's minds.

"The problem is that while most of us know that the idea of a perfect relationship is unrealistic, some of us are still more influenced by media portrayals than we realise."

The 10 Most Damaging Chick Flicks Ever Made
In real life, Baby probably would have ended up as a one-night stand, crying her heart out to her sister while Johnny moved on to his next easy catch.

 

[Toxick]

The 10 Most Damaging Chick Flicks Ever Made
In real life, Baby probably would have ended up as a one-night stand, crying her heart out to her sister while Johnny moved on to his next easy catch.

Porn does the same thing for men.

Every time I order a pizza, I think "THIS time my pizza will be delivered by a big-tittied brunette with blue eyes who likes to do the shimmy-shimmy ko-ko bop with customers".



My life has never be satisfactory in this department.

 

[vraiblonde]

Wait...does this mean I've been doing it wrong all these years??

 

[Bann]

Oh, phooey. Foxhound loves to watch "chick flicks" with me and it hasn't ruined anything for us.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

Just having to sit through them when I would much rather see explosions on a Michael Bay like scale instead is reason enough.

 

[Vince]

Oh, phooey. Foxhound loves to watch "chick flicks" with me and it hasn't ruined anything for us.

You make him watch those? Beaches?

 

[Bann]

You make him watch those? Beaches?

Who said anything about making him? He is the King of movie watching! I rarely went to a movie before I met him. IF a movie came on TV and I happened to watch it, I rarely sat still for it - too much to do, Thing1 was never quiet, etc.

I mentioned ONE time at a meet & greet and/or on this forum that I wanted to see Meryl Streep's movie about Maggie Thatcher...so he asked me out to that movie the first time we ever went out.

He is a movie fan, and will watch nearly anything. Me, not so much when I met him, but I am coming around. I might even be talked into an Action Adventure movie this year if Robert Downey, Jr is in it.

 

[Foxhound]

Who said anything about making him? He is the King of movie watching! I rarely went to a movie before I met him. IF a movie came on TV and I happened to watch it, I rarely sat still for it - too much to do, Thing1 was never quiet, etc.

I mentioned ONE time at a meet & greet and/or on this forum that I wanted to see Meryl Streep's movie about Maggie Thatcher...so he asked me out to that movie the first time we ever went out.

He is a movie fan, and will watch nearly anything. Me, not so much when I met him, but I am coming around. I might even be talked into an Action Adventure movie this year if Robert Downey, Jr is in it.

We can watch all the Iron Man flicks on Amazon or netflix!

He had a big role in the movie In Dreams too! We could watch that. Muhahahahahaha!