What Has Televison Taught Us About Love?

Like every other American, I've been interested in the television more than the news. Today, I realized something about it-what was between the lines. Televison teaches us lessons about love, we just have to look for them. So, I've composed a list of the lessons that I've learned from television shows:

• In the show, The Secert Life of the American Teenager, I learned two lessons. One is not to have sex too young. In the show, we see Amy and Ricky struggle to make things work with their son, John, who was born when she was barely fifteen. We see that teenage sex has many consquences, such as STDs, and teen pregnancy, like we see in the show with the characters Amy, and Ricky, and Adrienne, and Ben. The second lesson I learned is never get married for the wrong reasons. Adrienne and Ben got married because of their baby. You and I both know that is not a very good reason to marry someone, because marriage is something made out of love, not something that is arranged, because of a mistake that you've made.
• In the show Sex and the City, I learned that it's all a balancing act, with your lover and your friends. I learned your friends deserve the same amount of time, maybe even more, than your boyfriend. They were there before your boyfriend was, and they will be there with a tub of ice cream, to comfort and console you when that dumbass leaves you, whether in person or on a post it note, like Berger did to Carrie. They will be the ones that will go out with you to meet someone new, or to gossip about the hot waiter or the mean girl.
• In the show Everybody Loves Raymond, we see what happens when we get older, with love, like in Marie and Frank's case, getting through raising children, like Ray and Debra, and then just starting out, like with Robert and Amy. We also see that love survives through out all of that, through the years of good, and the years of bad. It's all a giant melting pot of love.

These are just the few examples that we have in modern day television. I think that love is like learning how to drive, you can't just rely on the books. You have to rely on experiance, and no one's experiance is quite the same as another persons.