10 Life Lessons The Walking Dead Teaches Us

9. Relationships Suck

Wd9 I don't know about you, but The Walking Dead's depiction of relationships has made me glad to be single (not that I wasn't anyway...). First, there was Lori, sleeping with her husband's best friend while he was in a coma, and then returning to him after that best friend had fallen in love with her. Then we had Ed, Carol's drunk and abusive husband; he was a barrel of laughs, wasn't he? And there was Andrea and the Governor; weren't they a match made in Heaven? Until he kidnapped her, tied her to a chair and left her to get zombified, that is. The only shining light at all is the bond between Maggie and Glenn. But even that relationship started off on the wrong foot. It also seems that the two have quite little in common (other than both being present at the apparent end of the world) and it is quite likely that, had they met in different circumstances, a romance would probably not have ever developed. But what happens if you're one of the lucky few who does find your soulmate, the person who makes you complete, the Ying to your Yang, the being you simply cannot be without? They get eaten by zombies, that's what.
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I'm a university graduate/full-time layabout who fills his days writing fiction, watching 90s sitcoms and growing irate after failing to catch Mewtwo with 99 ultra balls on Pokémon Red. I think that says it all, really, doesn't it?