| After reading through magazines, watching | | | | will find them annoying. Too much drama or |
| movies and watching the latest edition of soap | | | | inflating an issue too far and sorry he will be |
| operas your imagination runs wild. You start to | | | | thinking (manipulative, devious witch) maybe I am |
| think that I want a life like that or I hope that | | | | going out with the wrong woman. |
| never happens to me. The reality is that our life is | | | | Equally so women who reckon that they should |
| nothing like a movie or a soap opera. There | | | | experience all the good times that their latest |
| maybe some things in the soap that happen to | | | | soap character has experienced are also very |
| you but in general whatever appears on TV is not | | | | naive. While there is nothing wrong with reminding |
| reality. | | | | him to be romantic every now and then, don't |
| Ok so men like factual things and hate anything | | | | bombard him with the your latest fad as seen on |
| emotional. The emotional nature and lack of facts | | | | Coronation Street every week. That's tacky, |
| in a soap are probably the biggest reasons for | | | | annoying and makes him feel as though he is |
| men disliking Soaps, but they are not the only | | | | worthless to constantly compare him with a |
| reasons. | | | | movie star or soap star. Comparing him every |
| The majority of men absolutely hate soap operas | | | | once in a while is fine but don't constantly put him |
| because they know that women are going to | | | | down, because you wouldn't like it if he did the |
| compare their lives with what is happening on the | | | | same to you. |
| latest soap opera. Women for some reason want | | | | The reality of real life is the challenge of bringing |
| to relive most of the moments on the soap | | | | up children, balancing your finances, buying a |
| opera. Fair enough they have conversations with | | | | house, shopping for groceries etc. Balanced with |
| their friends about what's happened on the latest | | | | some very exciting times such as wedding days, |
| edition of Coronation Street. But don't make the | | | | honeymoons, romantic dates, when your child |
| big mistake and think your life should be like a | | | | first walks or talks, when your child gets married |
| soap opera or a movie. | | | | and continues the next generation of your family. |
| Life in reality is full of good times and bad times. | | | | When he is not working on the latest movie, even |
| Life would be boring if it was easy. But don't | | | | Brad Pitt has to think about the more mundane |
| make life any harder than it already is by being a | | | | things in life. So don't try to make your life like a |
| drama queen. Sometimes men find these drama | | | | fantasy story on TV. |
| moments entertaining but go over the top and he | | | | |