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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n1. If you hate each other on sight, you'll probably continue doing so.  \n\nIf it looks like a douchebag, smells like a douchebag, and talks like a douchebag, it's a douchebag. You are not going to realize he's secretly sweet and sensitive after you stumble on him tenderly regurgitating food into an orphaned pigeon's mouth. Or helping an elderly woman cross the street. Or tenderly regurgitating food into an elderly woman's mouth.2. No decent man would make his girlfriend choose between him and a high-pressure career. As evidenced in \"cautionary tale\" movies like The Devil Wears Prada, you have to be careful of getting Too Excellent At Your Job, or else you'll end up a ball-busting dragon lady who's still single in her fifties, right? No. Fuck that. If Adrian Grenier is waving around grilled cheese sandwiches and whining about how you don't pay enough attention to him, you should dump him and find someone who keeps up with you professionally. Besides, being a killer professional woman who's single at fifty is probably awesome.3. People don't suddenly realize that they have made a massive mistake in their romantic choice and make a run for LAX in the rain before he/she boards the plane to Chicago. Why is it always raining? Why is it always LAX to O'Hare? Why do the movies think we don't know that nobody is ever allowed to go past the gate, no matter how wet and lovelorn they are? DON'T THEY KNOW I'M AN AIR MARSHAL? (No I'm not.)4. By the way, nobody looks that good in the rain. If someone is running after someone else in the rain, they're not going to wear a hot fitted t-shirt in a nude color and sleek black jeans. They're going to wear their disgusting college sweatshirt and carry a broken umbrella and probably have pieces of food on their face. By the time I get from home to work in the rain I'm this: 5.Sex is awkward. Nobody's art-directing your enthusiastic fornication unless you hire them to. And don't try to steal my sex art director, Mischa. I give him really good insurance benefits.\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n6. Speaking of sex, you barely have room to do it in your tiny apartment. Who is the real estate agent for these people? Is it the same one who found Monica's apartment on Friends? Because no single twentysomething person has the large, Anthropologie-furnished lofts you often see in New York rom-coms.i&amp;gt;No.\n\n 7. Nobody leaves voicemails!! Maybe your mom or your boss leaves voicemails, but very few people in my generation leaves voicemails, which consistently play a key role in rom-coms' (a) hilarious misunderstandings or (b) heart-wrenching third act twists. Texting is more useful, albeit way less dramatic on-screen.8. Snow Patrol doesn't start playing at the height of every emotional conflict. Except that one time when I couldn't get a reservation at the Olive Garden and the opening chords of \"Chasing Cars\" started playing right on cue. #ifIlayhere #ifIjustlayhere #endlessbreadsticks9. Guys barely notice when you get a makeover. There is no glorious Miss Congeniality slow-mo moment. When I got contacts in sophomore year of high school, I asked a boy I liked if he noticed anything different about me. He asked if I'd gotten new glasses. And, scene.10. Extravagant proposals or makeups don't indicate a great relationship. In these movies, the grand gesture is often representative of the truest love someone can have. In that horrible movie Bride Wars (yes, I saw it, let's move on), we are supposed to think that Anne Hathaway's character's relationship is doomed because the proposal is low-key and over takeout Chinese (pictured above). Sure enough, the two eventually break up. But many women, myself included, would much prefer that to a big showy proposal that felt more like a viral video production than an intimate moment between you and your boyfriend. Plus, you guys all know how I feel about Chris Pratt, who's made out of cream-based dairy and flannel shirts and sex appeal.Oh, and furthermore, a flash mob has never been the key to a woman's heart. Talking to you, Friends With Benefits. I can't think of anything worse than being surprised in a public place with a huge crowd of random, enthusiastic Everypeople who probably have meat sweats.  Follow Anna on Twitter.  Photo Credit: 20th Century Fox"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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