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How The Movies Fool Us Into Thinking Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast Is Cool

In real life, romance doesn’t work that way

Klara Jane Holloway
3 min readJan 17, 2022
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We’ve all watched those movies where the couple just met in some falsely romantic way.

Online? Without ever seeing each other?

From top-deck first-class passenger chick to the steerage underdeck poor boy?

They’re immediately hot for each other. They jump into bed (or back seat of a car) and have super romantic, hot, monkey sex, that lasts for hours.

Usually after not even having a decent date. Probably not even knowing each other’s last names.

Is this real life? Nope. Only in the movies, my friends.

People: Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio/free to use

This is so bizarre and unreal it’s scary. Our kids are watching this stuff. The young girls think they're inadequate. The young boys are thinking WTF? Why am I not getting lucky?

And if they do have sex? This ain’t the movies folks.

We live in a common, everyday world. If you get lucky, and this happens to you, believe me, it won’t last. The first time you fart, burp, or have bad…

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Klara Jane Holloway
Klara Jane Holloway

Written by Klara Jane Holloway

I write about my experiences in life. Some mundane, some sad, some funny, and hopefully none boring!

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