I Love His Girl Friday, but It's All About Manipulation

Dan: Even if that is somewhat based in reality, the idea that like, was isn't it adorable how you kind of pretended you were my boyfriend while I was in the hospital? Elliot: It's just a real life version of while you were sleeping. The other thing is that romcoms teach you to never take no for an answer from respect to love interest and go find someone else. Dan: Don't convince them that they should love you. That's not how love works.