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When we fall in love with potential rather than reality

I feel like I love the potential of who my partner could become more than who they actually are right now.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Loving someone's possibility rather than their actuality creates a relationship with a ghost that may never materialize.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Falling in love — the neuroscience and the phenomenology?”

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