I’ll confess. I watched Bride Wars last night. I had to watch it alone because everyone refused to lower themselves to that level. Well, I don’t care! I love weddings, Anne Hathaway, and Kate Hudson! So there!

It was actually sort of therapeutic, surprisingly. Anne Hathaway’s character, Emma, was in a so-so relationship. Of course, the plot called for her to have more at the end in order for the audience to feel fulfilled. Sorry to spoil it, but she ends up not marrying her fiancee. In (literally) the next scene, she was married to a guy who had loved her all along, and she was pregnant.

I was sitting there going, “That was a major relationship! They lived together! Where’s the part where they have to move out? Where’s the part where she has to cope with that loss?”

Naturally, this was all I was thinking about because I’m in my moving out phase. I’m in my coping with my loss phase. I couldn’t believe they didn’t show any of that! I felt like that was what I needed to see.

WRONG!

It dawned on me that the writers left that part out…because it doesn’t matter. Those parts hurt and are completely valid and necessary — but only for a little while. The pain goes away, and you’re left with the next chapter of your life.

So, thanks writers of Bride Wars. It probably wasn’t the message you intended for me to get, but it helped nonetheless.