If you are anything like I am, you have watched "The Bachelorette" religiously season after season in hopes that the finale ends with a proposal from your favorite bachelor. Every time, I find myself guesstimating how long the relationship will actually last after the camera crew disappears and the thrill of dating twenty-five of America’s most eligible bachelors finally wears off.
Dating twenty-five men at the same time sounds like any woman’s dream, until it actually becomes reality. Personally, juggling twenty-five men all at once would give me a headache and just sounds exhausting.
"What's your name again?"
"What did we do on our last date?"
"Oh, this is our first date?"
It is hard enough getting to know all the ins and outs of one guy, let alone having to magically connect and get to know multiple in the short amount of time ABC gives the bachelorette to find her one true love. You can’t find true love in a couple weeks in real life, and you definitely can’t find true love while dating twenty-five men who claim they like you more then the next guy does in the reality television world. It is like ABC puts twenty-five names in a bowl and says, “here we placed your future husband in this bowl, pick him out!” Love just doesn’t work like that, ladies! Your true love is not in a bowl of names.
So how does love work? Love takes time. Something the show lacks! The Bachelorette is forced to make a connection with these men and given so little time to do so. I don’t think you can put a time limit on choosing your future husband and the person you want to spend the rest of your life with. She may be interested the first couple months, but realize the guy is a loser and that they really have nothing in common. Now what? "The Bachelorette" and the new man split like the couple did the season before. ABC will find a new woman to go through the process and all will be okay in the world.
The girls that were rooting for them at home are left disappointed, but not surprised, and will prepare for the next season of hopeless love and new handsome men to fall in love with.
