I grew up on a diet of period dramas. Pride and Prejudice, Wives and Daughters, North and South, Emma, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Tenant of Wildfell Hall - the works. I loved them, watched them over and over again. Read all the books until the pages fell out. I fell in love with the morally courageous, dynamic, flawed men who leapt off their pages.
I have just come back from a date with a bloke who told me repeatedly and at length about being chased by a grizzly bear whilst on holiday.
He then informed me that his cat wakes him in the morning by licking his nipples.
Clearly, he isn't the one. I get that real men cannot live up to literature. I am not looking for perfection, but I would like someone who is just a teensy weensy bit like John Thornton. AIBU?
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to wonder if period dramas have ruined real men for me?
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olivebee · 17/03/2014 22:25
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