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ddvmor


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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 movies included You've Got Mail, Maid In Manhattan, The Wedding Planner and While You Were Sleeping.

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."

It's not because I think they're drivel at all... it's beacuse they're scientifically proven to be bad for the environme... er... for relationsh... no, wait. It is because I think they're drivel.

But at least I can quote some ropey stats next time the girls in my office start cooing about Sex and the City or fecking Mama Mia!

-- Edited by ddvmor at 13:40, 2008-12-16

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I am currently on the last half of a so far 62 year study which has proven that romance does not exist...Comedy, however, exists in abundance...I can therefore state with scientific certainty that romance and comedy are mutually exclusive...

As a side observation, I can report that a heretofore belief that romance is extant resulted in comedic-like guffaws but the joke was on me...Ben

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