If you have ever watched shows like, “How I Met Your Mother”, “Friends”, or even “The Office”, you will understand what I mean when I say  that TV show romance has ruined me forever. I mean c’mon, how are we supposed to ever find love like the one on these shows for Pete’s sake? (If you have been fortunate enough to have met someone and you’re happily in love, go away, this article probably isn’t meant for you). Just think about it for a few moments; Ted and Tracy, Ross and Rachel, and how can we leave out Jim and Pam? These are all great and amazing stories of love and no matter how bad it ever got, you knew that these characters would have everything work out for them, because it’s television. Now, some of you may still be asking yourself, why is this a problem Christian? Well, let me explain.

Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz

When looking back on everything that Ted ever had to experience just to get to Tracy, I begin to question my own relationships. How could he have gone through so many different failures and still not understand if he had met his lifelong treasure of destiny? He did not even have an idea that this human being ever existed and he was drained by the end. He was so drained by trying to love, that he had to pack up his things and make the move to an entire different city. I believe we all have that bit of Ted in us. We may not have had the luck that Marshall had in finding “the one” in college, but dammit, after everything we’ve already experienced there was no way we were ever just going to settle in a relationship, no matter how much it took out of us.

You see, Ted’s a warrior and sometimes that gives me hope that one day everything will be absolutely fine with my love life. I can only blame myself for the love I may have ran away from and sometimes it’s honestly something that eats at me every single day. This is what ruins me. What if it doesn’t work out? What if I never worry about finding love that time just escapes me and I never find it? I know that Klaus specifically told Ted that everyone finds their lifelong treasure of destiny eventually, but what if by the time I find her it would already be too late? Ted was a great story, but he set the expectations of love so high for me that I’m not sure I could ever live up to it.

Lobsters

According to Friends, everybody has a lobster. Ross is an example of what you may happen if you stay quiet for way too long. Although everything obviously works out for Ross in the end (Spoiler Alert), it is still the most complicated thing ever to make it work with “the one”. The part that I never understood is how difficult it was for everything to work out between him and Rachel even though there was obviously a connection since the beginning of the series. Looking back at this, if I was to put someone through all the stuff that Ross and Rachel went through, why would we even want that to work? Jeez, why’s it so complicated Ross?

PB & J

Ah, Pam & Jim were one of my all-time favorite couples of TV history. Although I did not like the idea that Pam was going to go after Jim after leaving him hanging for those few gut wrenching seasons, I ultimately loved it. However, how could I possibly ever  have the sort of patience that Jim has before Pam decides to ultimately come along? After being brave and making his feelings known, how do you know where to draw the line? There’s so many questions here that I’ll probably have once I’m married with kids or whatever, but for now I’ll focus on the waiting part. In the meantime, JIM WE NEED ANSWERS.

So What?

Basically, after reminiscing over the relationships that we all adored on TV you can see how a guy like myself could have been affected by this sort of sick, twisted plan of messing with my fragile mind with these sort of fantasy relationships. The real life is not that easy and expectations like these make it that much more difficult to find out what I truly want. I mean, eventually I’m going to figure it out and everything’s going to work out, but in the meantime if I could get a quick peak at my future script, yeah, I’d appreciate that.