10 TV Couples That Created Unrealistic Expectations About Relationships

3. Buffy/Angel - Buffy The Vampire Slayer

The relationship between Buffy and Angel may not have ended on the best of terms, but if you're a girl who was growing up in the late 90s, this was a romance that you probably had more than a few squeaky clean prepubescent fantasies about. Young, impressionable viewers dreamed about Angel as their ideal mate, a sensitive, mature older man who worshipped the ground that they walked on. Sure, he had a dark side, but that just meant that he was tortured and complicated. Now, of course, it seems pretty creepy that a vampire with over 200 years of life under his belt would be even remotely interested in a 16-year-old girl, but back then? Super adorable. Buffy and Angel 4ever. It was like Romeo And Juliet for the 90s set, with all the self-destructive tendencies and unhealthy habits of the original. Look, for better or worse, Buffy and Angel had a serious impact on what a lot of teenagers perceived the ideal, romantically tortured relationship to be.