I cannot even begin to tell you how into the "Twilight Saga" I am. I know, I know, maybe I am a little bit too old for it, but somehow I just can't help it. I feel like I'm a 15 year old girl all over again, and my heart starts racing and I feel like I could shriek at any moment just thinking about it...
I was so reluctant at first to read the books, but from the first few chapters I was completely hooked. And then when they came out with the movies with Rob Pattinson and Taylor Lautner who are both so gorgeous, they got even better. Last night my Best and I went to see the movie "Eclipse," and I could not stop thinking about the Edward/Bella/Jacob love triangle. If we're going to discuss relationships, then we have to at least touch on one of the most well-known fictional relationships of this generation. Bella is in love with Edward and can't stand to be away from him, not even for one second, even though she knows he may not be good for her or may not be the "best" choice. And then there is poor Jacob, who is head over heels in love with her, and could give her a normal human life. She loves Jacob and he knows it, but it's just not the same. And Edward is even willing to give up Bella so that she can be with Jacob if that's what she wants. Of course we know it's not what she wants, because she is drawn to Edward like a magnet and they can't be pulled apart.
It's hard to watch these movies and not have the "fairytale, everything will turn out perfectly, people who are so in love with each other always end up together" mentality. I want to think that in life we can end up with our Edward's, even if the Jacob's are the "right" choice, but from my experience, I just don't know if that's possible...-Eager Beaver
Eager Beaver,
There really isn't much for me to say here because obviously you get that "Eclipse" is a fairytale as much as "Cinderella" is. And that alone should give you the "secret" answer you so desperately seek. Boy, we women sure do get sucked in by romance novels and films but they're books and movies, intentionally designed to entertain us and not with reality...with fantasy.
But still, we're eternally hopeful, just look at the track record of ABC's "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" reality dating series. Out of a combined 20 seasons, there has only been one genuine "fairytale" ending with Trista and Ryan. Yes, Jason and Molly got married but not before Jason made a train wreck of Melissa Rycroft. Yet the series persists because we desperately hope that someone will find their soul mate and live happily ever after. And we believe, by proxy, that if it happened for them then why couldn't it happen for me? But real life is so much more complicated and messy than a TV show, book or movie could ever be. And the stark statistics, according to Jennifer Baker of the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology in Springfield, Missouri, are that 50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second and 74% of third marriages end in divorce. The cold hard facts should tell you all you need to know about the reality of fairytale endings.
-Hot Mama (aka Debbie Downer)
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