Is it normal to not believe in love songs?
After two years of the first time in my life that I have ever really been in love, she decided that we weren't as well matched as I felt we were, and left me. That was almost a year ago (it will be a year in just a few weeks).
I've moved on, found a great new girl, and am in a great new relationship. But "the one that got away" still has a large piece of my heart, and no matter how much I go on with my life, her beautiful face and the memory of our love still haunts me.
Here's my problem: When I hear a love song on the radio that resembles our situation, a song about being broken-hearted and being in love, and love lost, at first I want to cry, but then, instead, I get angry. I get angry because I don't believe it. I mean, these songs were written by rock stars, and what the hell do rock stars know about broken hearts? They have everything: love, adoration, money, fame... the worst thing they have to deal with is which girl do they want today, and do they want to smoke a joint or shoot up.
I know I should take comfort in love songs like these, but I don't. First they take the knife from my back and shove it into my heart, and then I realize that they're not even real: they're just written by someone to make a buck and try to get famous.
I don't trust love songs. I don't believe in them. I don't believe that anybody who has success as great as that can understand the hell I'm going through. Is it normal?