Happily Ever After? More Like Caught In A Bad Romance...

It's said that people want a fairytale relationship. Meaning a girl wants to be swept off her feet by a knight in shining armor. Little kids learn from a young age that when you're older and in a relationship/get married you have love at first sight and then live happily ever after, which is never true. Even though this reading focused on movies for the older generation, it's very much seen in Disney movies as well. Even as teens and adults we see movies portray romance as this easy thing that we think that we should have this too. Movies say that even if there's an obstacle in your way it's easy to overcome and you still get the girl in the end. They also say that the nerdy, unpopular guys get the popular, cheerleader girls every time when in actuality it rarely happens in reality at all. An example of this can be in the movie Aladdin, Aladdin lies to Jasmine and tells her he's a prince when actually he's poor and at the end of the movie they still end up together living happily ever after. Movies also never show the reality after "and they lived happily ever after," which is what we all have to live in. People get sick of who they're with, people cheat on their spouses, and people do get divorced; but hey you never see that kind of thing in a Disney movie now do you? Now I know that this isn't a shocker to anyone but we always believe that this won't happen to us because we have a "perfect" relationship and that we'll be happy and in love together forever. Well if you believe this about your relationship then you have already fallen victim to what movies say about romance.