When it comes to dishing bad love advice, romantic comedys and romantic dramas are guilty as charged. Here are a few love lessons to unlearn from some of Hollywood’s most popular chick flicks:

  • Jerry Maguire: The whole “You complete me” line is bogus. Relationship experts claim pop culture’s messages about soul mates, destiny and happy endings are nothing like real-life relationships.
     
  • Sleeping Beauty: Listen up, ladies. Move past the “Save me, my handsome prince” mentality. Be more like Merida from Brave.
     
  • Love Story: The line “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” is just as bogus. Love is all about having to apologize because compromise is key to any relationship.
     
  • How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days: Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey play games to try and not fall in love, but do anyway. Relationships don’t magically fix themselves and work out.
     
  • Sleepless In Seattle and You’ve Got Mail: Stranger danger is real, but not in rom-coms.
     
  • GreaseBridget Jones and She’s All That: Makeover movies. Changing appearances is not the successful way to land a relationship. But being yourself is! (Huffington Post)