Je t'aime...Moi non plus

(...also known as "Just an Illusion"...)

"I have a theory about how this all started. Uh, excuse me, but what the Hell?! Where did that rumor start? Because moms have been spreading it for years. Do you understand what this means? We are all encouraged to believe that if a guy acts like a total jerk that means he likes you. Sure, that's a lesson that might serve us as five year olds, but many of us keep believing this advice, well, into adulthood. Then, as we get older, we carry on this tradition of misreading the signals men send by encouraging our friends to do the same. Why do we say this stuff to each other? Why do we tell each other these lies? Is it possible that it's because we're too scared, and it's too hard, to say the one obvious truth that's staring everyone in the face?"

First: "But what if I'm the exception? - You're not. You're the rule. And the rule is: if a guy doesn't call you, he doesn't want to call you."

Second: "Trust me: if a guy is treating you like he doesn't give a shit...he doesn't. No exceptions."

Third: "Maybe his grandma died or maybe he lost my number or is out of town or got hit by a cab... - Or maybe he is not interested in seeing you again."

Fourth: "If a guy wants to date you he will make it happen."

Fifth: "If a guy gives you his phone number, instead of taking yours, he's not interested. And, if a guy wants to see you, he will see you."

(From "He's Just Not That Into You", 2009)

Yeah, we all deceive and convince ourselves that for us will be different, that we're gonna definitely be the exception.
But, in a World where we are all rules, why should we believe to be that exception? Is it for true that people who are rules at the beginning become exceptions at the end and other way round?
Yes, absolutely. In a movie, in a book, in a song, in a tale.
But what when we are talking about reality of true life?
Because in life, sometimes a rule is just a rule, it doesn't become anything else and your story ending is not that happy as exactly as he was just not that into you.