Assume that the Connor Meades of the world are going to stay the way they are. Let’s stop pretending that our lives are going to turn out like the plot lines of the dozens of romantic comedies we’ve seen.
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Connor Meade’s turnaround at the end of the movie isn’t something that would happen in real life. How many times do women do this in their life? How many times do women think that their life is going to be like a sweet romantic comedy and that the man is going to change for them?īecause as much as this movie is a beautiful redemption story and has life lessons about relationships, it’s not real life. Jenny got hurt in her relationship with Connor because they simply weren’t compatible. Choose Compatibility over That Guy You’re “Fixing”īefore Connor makes the transition to the man who will ultimately end up with Jenny at the end of the movie, there’s a lesson to be learned about compatibility. Love and relationships require us to put ourselves out there and to take the risk that we just might get crushed.
Love and relationships require us to put ourselves out there and to take the risk that we just might get crushed, but the risk just might be worth it. You’re messing up big time.” Connor wastes so much time going from girl to girl because he was too afraid of getting crushed. At which point, my dad charmingly says, “Oh no, don’t do it. Later in the night, Connor changes his mind and sneaks off, afraid of falling for Jenny (again). So in the words of Jenny, when Connor begins to return to his playboy ways after they’re intimate for the first time: “You have three seconds to get back in this bed where you belong, and where, deep down, you actually want to be.” And he does, for a while.
This movie shows us that’s probably the case even for the playboys of the world who don’t realize that true connection is what they really want.īecause Connor takes a chance on an emotional, rather than a physical encounter (as he normally would), he’s able to develop real feelings for a woman. And aren’t the feelings that we develop and the relationships we build the best part? Isn’t sex meant to bond two people together, not leave women, and certainly some men, I’m sure, feeling cold and empty? The facade created by the psychological bond sex creates is likely to only leave you confused if the emotional connection isn’t there. The great power of the woo!īecause Connor takes a chance on an emotional, rather than a physical encounter (as he normally would), he’s able to develop real feelings for a woman. Because he obliges and continues to go on dates with Jenny and tries to have a real relationship with her, the two fall in love. So you’ve gotta woo me.”Īnd, she points out, the wooing is actually not for her benefit. Instead, she insists on “just dinner.” At the end of the night, Connor makes his last attempt, which is when Jenny imparts some words of wisdom, saying, “I don’t want this to be just a one-night thing. The two had been friends as kids, and when they’re reunited as adults, Connor tries to convince her to sleep with him in a typical one-night stand, but Jenny refuses. While on the adventure, he is forced to revisit his relationship with the quintessential girl-next-door type, Jennifer Perotti (Jennifer Garner). In the movie, the character Connor Meade (Matthew McConaughey) is the ultimate playboy, who is forced to visit all his ghosts of girlfriends past à la Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Have I sold you on it yet? It’s got Jennifer Garner, who is delightful and my favorite actress, and Matthew McConaughey, enough said.Ĭasual Sex Doesn’t Provide People with True Connection I mean it, he cried from laughing so hard, fell in love with Michael Douglas’s character Uncle Wayne, and kept saying, “This is the best thing ever!”. But after? He made my mama watch it! If my dad can get on board with a chick flick, you know it’s good. It’s a chick flick, and going off the title, my dad objected at first (yours might also). I watched the movie with my sister, and we both agreed that my dad would love it (he did).
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