Love stories as a kind of escape literature
Love stories do help people. And in general, when can the so-called love stories therapy be of any use for people?
To begin with, some people are kin on reading love stories and others even if not openly hate such stories then can't understand those who like reading sentimental novels full of unbelievable coincidences and romance. Of course, reading love stories can not help the latter ones. But they can help the former very much!
Sometimes we feel utterly desolated, deeply depressed and just fed up with life and reality. Anyway we aren't satisfied with our life any more. What shall we do? Firstly, we can compare our current situation with a worse one, which can help to find out positive sides.
Secondly, we can try to compare it with something better and more interesting and find an escape. Actually, this explains why people read love stories: thinking like that love stories can be called literature of escape. You read love story pages one by one, sink into them and they distract your attention from your troubles. Reading entertaining and eventful love stories about happy couples, perfectly beautiful young women, brave men and passionate love you can't help being fascinated by all this, which means the problems bothering you so much don't seem to you that important any more. A story plot will touch you especially if you are rather imaginative and romantic by nature.
Besides, in a love story you are likely to find similar situations that may suggest the right way of acting. Just try to imagine that you find yourself in a rather puzzled situation and you don't know how to deal with it. You can read a love story and suddenly a clear plan of action forms in your mind. Maybe otherwise the idea would have never entered your mind and you wouldn't have been able to find any way out. In short, if you want directions you can try to find them in a love story that looks at the situation similar to yours.
Besides, love stories are great teachers. We learn to love people, to forgive them for hurting us; we learn to be tolerant to others. If you are one of those "never-read-that-sort-of-stuff" esthetes, indulge yourself just once and you'll get lost in the whirlpool of passion and excitement.
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