Life is Not a Romantic Comedy Movie

You're at the movie theater, watching a romantic comedy film- say, the current hit Four Christmases with Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn, or if you're at home, a DVD or Blu-Ray of the 1989 classic When Harry Met Sally. Either place, you cuddle up to your significant other, and even make a bit of whoopie (though if you're at the movie theater, you may want to be a bit more quiet- and pray that the theater's empty). So later, you both go home, you get naked (or if you're already there, you're already that) and fuck like rabbits. And, of course, you live happily ever after, right?

Wrong, according to Scottish relationship experts.

These experts at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, say that romantic comedies give people unrealistic ideas about love and sex, and cause them to "fail to communicate with their partner. Dr. Bjarne Holmes, of the university says that "Marriage counselors often see couples who believe that sex should always be perfect..." Which probably means that the man has to have a well hung penis, the sex is earth-shattering; and the partner is screaming in ecstasy. And you have a cigarette afterward.

But those happy endings in the movies, as we all know, rarely happen in real life. After all, many romantic comedies don't include screaming kids and- with the exception of last year's riotous hit Knocked Up- rarely include women in labor.

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