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Reaching Others Through Kindness

If you’re a girl, or you’ve dated a girl, no doubt you’ve seen a chick flick.  All romance, sometimes partly comedy, these films are part of the reason that people believe what they do about marriage and love today.

They basically repeat this formula:

1. Boy meets girl.
2. Boy falls for girl.
3. Boy pursues girl.
4. Oh, watch out, here comes the plot twist where you think boy and girl will never get together.
5. Boy and girl kiss—and they live happily ever after.

Rinse and repeat.

All throughout this formula will be talk about love, feelings, and how those feelings translate into how this couple should get married.

For so long we’ve been lead to believe that the love that a couple has to have for each other is an emotional type love that it’s overgrown our society, and also lead to the logical end—people that believe they need to get divorced when the emotional feeling wanes.

We all need to be careful to avoid the effect of the chick flick.  Yes they are light and entertaining, and can even make us happy that we are married (if we are!), but the reality is that they are teaching and reinforcing a false premise.

Just like the effect the movie Enchanted had on Jenn Bacak’s daughter, Emma:

So my Emma is watching this movie, with every Disney princess rolled into one personified in this character. (Played very well too!) It starts out as animated, but becomes real life. It’s almost completely about finding true love, "true love’s kiss" which is said about 100 times, dating, and marriage.

I noticed during the movie, Emma was swooning, for lack of a better word.

She was intent on the "true love kisses" and this started the barrage of questions.

Fortunately Jenn had some good answers, but we all need to realize the effect of what we’re taking in, and know what it does to our worldview!

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