8 Movie Grand Gestures That Are Awkward In Real Life

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Involving the parents

I can attest to the fact that this doesn’t work out in real life because a guy tried this with me. We’ll get to that in a moment. But so often in movies, after a woman dumps a guy, that guy shows up at her parents’ home, giving them a whole speech about how he and their daughter are soul mates and how there were terrible misunderstandings and they have to help him get her back. And then they do. They stage some sort of intervention, have the daughter over, surprise her with the fact the guy is there. Force her to hear him out. This…is not what happens in real life. A guy tried this with my dad and my dad said (as he damn well should have), “My daughter knows what’s best for her. If she decided this relationship wasn’t working, that’s that. This isn’t my place. Best of luck out there man.” Most parents trust their children’s judgment enough to not let some ex weasel his way back in, through them.

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