Dear Fellow Rom-Com Victim,

I know you're exhausted from analyzing text messages like they're ancient hieroglyphs.

You've spent countless hours wondering why he took 3 hours to reply when yesterday it was 47 minutes. You've screenshot conversations to your friends, asking them to decode what "sounds good 👍" really means.

You're tired of waiting for someone to chase you through an airport (spoiler: they won't, because that's illegal now). You keep expecting movie moments that never come, leaving you disappointed by perfectly normal human behavior.

But here's what nobody tells you: While you're waiting for movie magic, real love is passing you by in the form of consistent text responses, reliable date planning, and people who show up when they say they will.

I used to be exactly where you are. I was the queen of mixed signal analysis, the master of creating elaborate theories about why someone's behavior meant they were "scared of their feelings."

I thought drama meant passion. I believed that if someone wasn't fighting for me, they didn't care enough. I was exhausted, confused, and consistently disappointed.

Then I realized something life-changing: The problem wasn't the people I was dating. The problem was that I was trying to live in a romantic comedy while everyone else was living in real life.

So I did something radical. I studied actual relationship psychology instead of movie relationships. I learned what really predicts long-term compatibility. I started dating like an adult instead of like a character waiting for her happy ending.

The result? I found love that's infinitely better than anything I ever saw in a movie. Not because it's more dramatic, but because it's more real. More secure. More sustainable. More satisfying.