Let's face it: we all love romantic comedies. If you say you do not, then you are a liar who has no heart...just kidding! But, seriously, they are so good. They bring up so many feelings and the characters are so easy to fall in love with. As good as romantic comedies are, however, you need to be cautious. They are not the best representations of real-life romance and love. Romantic comedies are actually kind of bad for us if we take them too seriously. They are not real!

Romantic comedies give us an unrealistic idea of what love and romance are. They make it seem like you will meet someone and immediately fall in love. That's not how love works! You need to know someone to actually fall in love with them. They teach women that they are supposed to be waiting for the right guy to come along and the moment that happens everything will be better. They teach men that love is this game and you have to win a woman's affection through large romantic gestures. Do not get me wrong, women love flowers and things like that, but love is not big gestures; it is the small things. It is taking care of each other and doing what is best for them.

Also, romantic comedies make you want people to do bad things. There are so many times that these movies have had one of the protagonists in a relationship and we all want them to cheat on them with the other protagonist. If we had friends doing that in real life, we would think it's wrong, but for some reason in these movies we want it to happen. An example from a TV show is Jim and Pam on "The Office." Yes, Jim and Pam are the perfect couple and we were all so happy when they kissed. Heck, we all wanted them to kiss episodes earlier. But Pam was engaged! Yes, he was a jerk, but it's still wrong.

The love in romantic comedies are filled with so many up and downs, it's exhausting. They like each other but for some reason can not be together, get together, something happens (usually some sort of misunderstanding), they break up, and once things are cleared up they get back together. Do you actually want to go through all that?

Romantic comedies are great if you do not take them too seriously. They may make you feel like your life is boring in comparison...

But that is not true. You do not want love that is as complicated as the love in romantic comedies. Real relationships are hard enough. Do not live the life of the woman in the movie waiting for Mr. Right to come around or the man who is trying to get the attention of the girl who ignores him all the time. Just live your life and if it is meant to be, God will put a person in your life.