Is love really blind? I wonder. Having been happily married (and some of the times not so happily) for 30 years, I cannot help but ask myself more frequently whether my love is blind. Unsurprisingly to myself, the answer seems to be affirmative. How else would I have been able to go through the various difficult times in our relationship? Logic would dictate that we would have broken up by now. The next question I have been asking is whether it had been good that my love is blind.
I found an interesting section in the book An Introduction to Positive Psychology by WC Compton with the title Is Love Really Blind?. What you will find in the rest of the article is based on what Compton wrote together with my thoughts.
In our minds, very often, we have pictures of our partners that are inaccurate. We have what is called positive romantic illusions about our partners. These illusions explain why we are oblivious to the faults of our partners and so enamoured of them.
While it is true that these illusions tend to fade with time, it is also true they can also strengthen with times, albeit with different characteristics.
In the former, when...
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