“It wasn’t over. It still isn’t over.”

On 25 June 2005, The Notebook hit cinemas – and it has, ever since, been held up as one of the greatest romantic movies of our time. That’s a whopping 15 years of Allie (Rachel McAdams) and Noah (Ryan Gosling) being held up by fans as #relationshipgoals. 15 years of passionate kisses in the rain. 15 years of “if you’re a bird, I’m a bird”. And 15 years of tears over that bittersweet ending (and no, we are not talking about that controversial alternate ending on Netflix).

It is the love film to end all love films, essentially. Or so we thought until recently, when a psychotherapist urged fans to stop watching The Notebook.

“If you believe in [The Notebook’s love story], you start to think, ‘I shouldn’t settle for less’,” insisted Gurpreet Singh. “But most average couples are nothing like that. We are humans, we are fallible. Love is imperfect because we are.”

Well, quite. But nobody – and I mean nobody – has ever praised The Notebook for being realistic.

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