True love

by susansommers

I’ve been watching a lot of “How I met your mother” which is basically a long, drawn out story of how two people meet. I cry about every other episode. Ted, the main character, gets in various relationships only to be constantly searching for the one. And their relationship is beautiful and happy and a fairytale. 

I keep going back and forth. Society wants us to have the tale while we all know that marriage is no walk in the park. And while I want the love story, I find it unrealistic to expect. I used to watch Friends and think “how can these people make life more difficult than it needs to be?” And now I see it’s because life is complicated. A love story is not without heartache and ghosts. So what should I be looking for?