Things I've Learned about Love (From The Movies)

In the loving mood of Valentine's Day, I'm going to tell you what love really is, according to the movies.

If you are in high school, the hot outcast girl will always fall for the sensitive jock looking to repair his image. This girl's best friend will typically end up with a character who always seems to pop up somewhere in the movie even though he/she doesn't really have a substantive part.

If you have been friends with someone for over 8 or so years and you've graduated from high school, you will realize that your best friend is the only true love in your life. However, you can not fall in love with your best friend because either you are in a relationship with an inattentive and chauvinistic boyfriend or because you are courting the future inattentive and chauvinistic boyfriend.

All guys have a friend who is extremely vulgar and demeaning towards women. But this friend has a change of heart after he sees you fall in love with the love of your life. This woman is typically a lot hotter than you would expect.

All girls have a friend who is completely and utterly helpless when it comes to love or eccentrically quirky. This friend will usually fall in love also, typically with a friend of the other guy.

There is always a stable or married couple in the movie that experiences some sort of fight because of the main character's relationship. They will typically be reunited at the end, also because of the main character's relationship.

If you have been in love with someone for a very long time, she/he and her/his friends never realize that you've had these feelings despite some very obvious and telltale signs.

A relationship can never be ruined until the issue of sex arises. Then the relationship is doomed for a while until the two lovebirds reconcile and get back together.

Nothing says romance than an extravagant and impractical romantic gesture.

Everyone has a chance with anyone, unless you look like a complete tool.

Men who are only after sex always are physically assaulted in the testicular area by someone (typically a woman who that man was courting, and typically with a swift knee to the balls).

Whenever you break up with someone, you should take long walks in the middle of the sidewalk despite the fact that everyone else is headed in your direction. You can't help but notice that every single thing that you look at for even a short amount of time somehow seems to look like your lost love.

There is always a woman who is looking to break up the main characters' relationship. This woman is typically a work-rival, a school-rival, an ex-best friend, an ex-wife, or an ex-girlfriend. She is typically crazy and despite the fact that she has looks to get anyone else, she will always go for the one that left her. She will use her overt sexuality in order to break up a relationship.

If you let your ex-girl/boyfriend into your house, your current girl/boyfriend will catch you in a compromising situation where it was very clear that you weren't doing anything, but somehow your ex-girl/boyfriend can convince your current girl/boyfriend otherwise.

If you told a lie before you got into a relationship, someone, typically a jealous person, will reveal the lie. The other person in the relationship will then leave you despite the fact that you tell her that everything other than that lie was real and that you really do love her/him.

So that is what I know about love, strictly from the movies. If you have any other lessons you would like to share, please enlighten us in the comment section. Have a great Valentine's Day/Singles Awareness Day!