Why do some women like love stories with a tragic end?

I don't get it. Why do some women like love stories that end in tragically?

I had an estrogen moment and watched "Message in a Bottle". In the end a budding love stories dies as the man drowns in the sea. There are other love stories that also end like this.

If you like love stories that end badly, please explain this to me, because I just don't get it.

Have you noticed that our mind is never blank, thoughts keep going through it? I found I was thinking the same kind of thought as love stories that ended badly. I was a bore to myself. Why most of my thoughts were worry thoughts of how bad things were or could be bewilders me.

One day I decided to put happy ending to my thoughts. Like in Phil. 4:8 whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable think on these things. I like myself so much better, now, I am fun to be with. My health and walk with the Lord has improved, too.

Romeo and Juliete---ends with both dead in suicide.
The African Queen ---Both die by a floating bomb as they are about to be executed.
West Side Story --- Male lover dies violently.
Love Story --- Female lover dies.
Titanic --- Male lover dies by hypothermia.
Ghost --- Male love dies violently and comes back as a ghost but at the end he leaves her.

These are just a few off the top of my head. Even the bible has a tragic love story in it with Samson and Delilah.

So, I am just trying to figure out why some women like these stories.

Danschance...

When you get an answer, then we'll both know, lol.

: )

We guys have no idea what you're talking about.

Guy movies often have some epic struggle, lots of blood guts and gore and ends in amazing victory.
So what is a love story about that ends in disaster?? Men got no clue.

I don't watch love stories because they end badly. But thanks for pointing out the facts. Actually it's just great entertainment to have 2 hours where you go into another world and see a story of a couple who love each other and who go to the ends of the earth for each other so to speak. It just transports you into a world where you may not live.

Why are fairy tales so bad? Why is there always a mean step mother, or a witch who wants to kill?

Maybe it's like the tootsie pop, we'll never know how many licks it takes to get to the center to get the tootsie roll.

Well for me I don't think it's a bad ending. Yes, when the main character(s) end up dying, it's not a good thing, but usually those movies are more memorable than "happily ever after" endings where they run off into the sunset, happy, together. I think it's more emotional and connective to have a sad ending than a happy one. I love emotional movies like that.

I like movies with tragic endings because it seems more realistic to me. Not every story/love story in life has a happy ending. People die, grow apart, fall into sin- addictions and whatnot, become ill, and not every guy gets to thrust his fist in the air because he got the girl like Judd Nelson did in The Breakfast Club. Watching the pain/anger/sadness/tragedy in the end of a film makes me love it more because I love feeling empathic towards the people in those circumstances at the end of the film.