What Is Unrealistic Expectations?

It’s part of life for people to find his or her soulmate. A whole world filled with a great amount varying personalities, lifestyles, cultures, and opinions. Us humans, have found a way to find our, “true love”. Unfortunately, that is decided through the influence of expectations raised in books and movies.

Now, what started these unrealistic expectations? A little custom called chivalry. The phrase, “knight in shining armor” (Alchin 1), comes from this time period with the knight’s Code and Act of Chivalry and Act of Chivalry. These codes were common practice with the knights. Knights would aid orphans, be honest, never forfeit a challenge, and honored the woman they loved before anything else. They would put everything down until they had fully honored their loved one. Much of the time, a woman would be expected to give a token, which is a symbolic object, of her choice

For example, kissing in the rain, taking a dance class and meeting your ‘soulmate’, and even being klutzy to ‘attract’ someone. There are some pretty far fetched expectations that exceed the ones listed, nonetheless, we hear about couples attempting to kiss in the rain or being super klutzy to ‘fall’ for his or her person. In all honesty, these are not considered to be healthy relationships. In the article, Romantic comedies make us 'unrealistic about relationships', claim scientists, by the publisher, The Telegraph, accredited Dr. Holmes states, “...people tend to believe the Hollywood idea of a perfect relationship...That is just unrealistic. People feel if their relationship is not like a Hollywood film then it is not any good.” Movies and books have created a stigma that all relationships should be a certain way, such as scenes in movies or books are used to model what to do in a relationship. These expectations cause strain between couples and can ruin not only their relationship, but the friendships they