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Something Vivian Lee just said raised this question for me. We've seen a bazillion fictional relationships - in books, movies, on TV. You name it, we've been indoctrinated.

 

So which ones influenced you the most or would you like to emulate?

 

I'll start this one off; leaving aside the great tales of passion restrained like Pride and Prejudice (swoon!) and The Age of Innocence, I'll go with the Helen Hunt-Paul Reiser team from Mad About You. They cared about each other a lot, had lots of fun together, and managed to get through their differences without major damage to either party.

 

OTOH, I HATE the Everybody Loves Raymond dynamic where couples fight incessantly and have zero respect for each other.

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Best Fictional people to describe us (doesn't mean it is accurate, but the best i could think of)

 

Me and my partner have the same 'family' problems as in EveryBody Loves Raymond and we are very similar in characteristics as the couple off King of Queens :)

 

I don't think I would ever 'like to emulate' a fictional couple no matter how 'perfect they look'.

 

Trying to be just like a fictional person is something a shallow person would do. Someone who believes they have no self value, and nothing left to do but get their 'self being' from someone else.

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So which ones influenced you the most or would you like to emulate?

 

Nick and Nora of "The Thin Man" mysteries. They made even marriage appear fun. :)

 

A classy and sassy couple.

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When I was young I read Gone With the Wind....always thinking the romance between Scarlet and Ashley was utterly 'romantic'.....till I lived it! Now, I have no role models..... :(

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Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester, hands-down. I think that's the most romantic love story ever ("Jane Eyre")

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Originally posted by quankanne

Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester, hands-down. I think that's the most romantic love story ever ("Jane Eyre")

 

 

Ooooohhhh, I second that!

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CaterpillarGirl

:love::love::love:

Some of my favorites are:

 

Caroline and Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prarie

Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in, well, anything

Mr Darcy and Lizzy Bennet in Pride and Prejudice

The title couples from the Disney, French, and television versions of "Beauty and the Beast"

Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe in the Anne of Green Gables series

Amy and Peregrin in An Ordinary Princess

Ella and Char in Ella Enchanted

 

ummm...I'm sure I can think of more, but I guess these will suffice

 

~~~a very mushy-feeling CG

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Originally posted by CaterpillarGirl

:love::love::love:

Some of my favorites are:

 

Caroline and Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prarie

Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in, well, anything

Mr Darcy and Lizzy Bennet in Pride and Prejudice

The title couples from the Disney, French, and television versions of "Beauty and the Beast"

Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe in the Anne of Green Gables series

Amy and Peregrin in An Ordinary Princess

Ella and Char in Ella Enchanted

 

ummm...I'm sure I can think of more, but I guess these will suffice

 

~~~a very mushy-feeling CG

 

I liked the Anne of Green Gables series too (wish I could find that series on DVD)

And Caroline and Charles Ingalls!

Tracy & Hepburn were a terrific team.

 

I also like the Waltons (grandma & grampa) and John & Olivia

 

However, my favorite, and I can relate more to, Tim "the tool man" and Jill Taylor! :p

Or to Dan & Roseanne. :(

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I third Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe. Actually I sometimes think I am Anne Shirley :). If only I could find my Gilbert Blythe.

 

My other favorites:

 

Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner in Anastasia

Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music

Myrna Loy and Cary Grant in the Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer

Petrarch and Laura - it must be so delicious to be a muse

Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas

Shakespeare and his Dark Lady - Sonnet 130

Rebecca and Ivanhoe

Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett

 

That's it for now. :)

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no, wait, jerry and kramer.

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DerangedAngel

Would you all shoot me if I said Lucy and Ricky? yes? I'm sorry... I grew up on those re-runs.

 

Ok... then I'll settle for Lizzy Bennet and Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice).

 

-Deranged :love:

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Can't quite get past Mr Darcy and Elizabeth

 

Ditto me. Didn't hurt that Colin Firth was the most recent Darcy :bunny:

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Ditto me. Didn't hurt that Colin Firth was the most recent Darcy :bunny:

 

Indeed...what a cutie

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Mike and Carol from the Brady Bunch...:p they never argued, and they were all gushy mushy all the time.

 

Josh and Reva are tooooooo much drama! They always get back together...but after DRAMA!

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