LadyBlackAdder: I think we allow reality to kill love. People's expectations of relationships are becoming much bigger and more complicated. Simplicity and kindness are the best things to go for.
Green_Sleeves: When we fall in love, we're just falling in love with ourselves.
Discuss.
It's more likely that when we fall in love, we fall in love with what we feel is lacking in ourselves, with what we want to have in our lives. I don't know if that is any better than falling in love with ourselves but it's more true.
LadyBlackAdder: It's more likely that when we fall in love, we fall in love with what we feel is lacking in ourselves, with what we want to have in our lives. I don't know if that is any better than falling in love with ourselves but it's more true.
So we fall in love with that which we project on each other
Green_Sleeves: So we fall in love with that which we project on each other
That could well be the truth. It's hard to really know someone else, so we fall in love with who we think that person is, relative to how much they seem to answer what we need in a partner. Delusion is probably a good thing when it comes to couples staying together
LadyBlackAdder: He is seriously adorable. I would love to have one
The slow loris's adorable appearance is this case has been there downfall. There has been such a huge illegal trade in them as pets that there now almost extinct.
Projection can be a huge issue in my opinion as it can completely fail to match the reality we are confronted with. Think that is indeed one of the big ones while relationships often do break apart, once realisation sets in. We have reasons why we project, we project what we need in another, and the more complex our needs, the less possible I think to cope with it if the projection is not met by reality. No doubt one can compromise on some things, but some of our needs can be essential to have them met for our emotional wellbeing in a relationship, or at least I know this is the case for myself.
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