If you're anything like me, you studied every romantic comedy like it was a bible and then subsequently failed miserably at dating for the rest of your life.
That's because unfortunately, rom-coms gave us some really, really bad advice, and tried to sell it as not only plausible but something we should expect.
We had to learn the hard way that life isn't like the movies. But hindsight is 20/20, amirite?