Two-Face, one of Batman's arch enemies, had a bright side and an evil side to his personality. With the simple flip of a coin, life's decisions were made. With the flip of a coin, a decision is made as to who kicks off first at a football game. With the flip of a coin, Billy has a 50/50 chance of losing the tie breaker to his best friend. What gives this piece of circular metal such power to make such important decisions? We do! Just like Two-Face, there are different sides to "love's" personality, and sometimes we allow love to be decided by yelling out "heads" or "tails."

Married by America, a new "reality" TV show, exhibits the beggar-side, the untamed-side, the moral-side, the mixing of elements-side, and the shot by cupid's arrow-side of love. Which face are you wearing? Many people bring up the topic of love, and I believe that since it's such a popular topic, TV attempts to create reality shows depicting love. Do these so called reality shows really display the truth of how Americans view and should view love?

First, Billie Jeanne and Tony are parading the untamed-side of love. She fell for him; he will soon run away with some free and "justified" lovin.' But soon Billie Jeanne's heart will be wrapped in a doggy bag, only to be tossed in the garbage after a few days in the fridge. Is it bad to have passion? No. But honestly, can you not read between the lines Billie?! Tony is a dog and you are his squeaky, toy bone that will soon lose the squeak. Boot them off America! Love should include passion but cannot be sold at Toys "R" Us.

Second, Stephen and Denise are showing the beggar-side of love. Denise is struggling with the common 80/20 relationship, in that, the woman gives 80% and the man gives 20% (which consists of 18% hormones and 2% heart). She is begging for more love while he glances at her body, his eyes shielded by shallowness- he doesn't like what he sees. Of course, she now has the weapon of using his shallowness to satisfy her needs temporarily and to give what he wants temporarily because shallowness will soon get bored with monogomy. Unfortunately, using the newly found weapon is a good start to a bad relationship. Isn't it a bit obvious what face he is wearing to the game? Next episode, YOUR OUT!

Third, Jennifer and Xavier are all about the moral-side of love. Jennifer's family/friends picked the complete opposite of her. What where they thinking? Xavier is all about the "no morals" where Jennifer claims to be all about "with morals." Xavier is the French love-Tarzan and Jennifer is the wolf posing in nun's clothing. Xavier is the real deal of a player, and Jennifer is a fake, who hides behind her "morals" because she can't be honest enough to just tell the guy she doesn't like him. Yet another common mishap in love; not enough communication and too much "beating around the bush". 'Tails', you lose!

Fourth, Matt and Cortez, who have been voted off already, were a perfect display of the "mixing of elements" side of love, AKA chemistry. Cortez was all about the "you are the perfect guy, BUT I'm just not feelin' it baby." This is a tough face of love to understand because she says that he has everything that she ever wanted, but then she throws in that dreaded "BUT" with the additional "I just don't feel this mysterious chemistry." So what does "this chemistry" feel like? It's tough to explain, but the words "comfortable", "trusting", and "desire to give your all" come to mind.

Fifth, Jill and Kevin are displaying the early signs of "getting hit by cupid's arrow" side of love. This type of love is also known as "love at first sight". A lot of people can't explain it but say "you just know when it happens." This is frustrating to the single crowd wanting to get hitched because "you just know" is not enough. Sometimes love requires you to go on blind faith until that faith turns into knowledge. I think this couple have well-balanced "faces of love" like passion, chemistry, same morals (not necessarily great morals but at least they agree that they like the lovin'), and both begging for more. Yup, you guessed it; 'Heads' they win, at least for now.

Although I think this show is all a setup by the producers to get rich (you greedy little...) we can learn by some of the faces of love displayed by these actors and actresses that will help us stop flipping the coin and help us decide now which faces we want to have and which faces we don't. Remember what killed Two-Face...the flip of a coin.