Should we look at our partners through rose-colored glasses? Source: Nitin Dhumal Pixabay These days, it is often expected for couples to idealize each other. People may believe that their partner’s ...

The resolution of the Oedipus complex is an essential aspect of heterosexual male development. It involves transferring the sexual feelings toward the parent of the opposite sex to someone else--i.e. ...

Nobody’s perfect, so they say. And conventional wisdom holds that entering marriage starry-eyed and blind to your partner’s weaknesses only foreshadows future disappointment and relationship trouble.

When we fall in love, we believe our partner is irreplaceable. We have found the one who is perfect, just right for us. The act of falling in love, in a sense, means that we reject the notion that ...

While it’s important to appreciate your partner, idealizing them can dangerously blur the lines between reality and fantasy in a relationship. Sometimes, you’ll meet someone who seems to check all the ...

Idealizing our partner is a common process in romantic relationships, especially in the early stages of a strong emotional bond. From a psychological perspective, idealization occurs when we attribute ...

Mate Idealization Makes for Happy Early Marriage People who had seemingly unrealistic expectations of their spouses were nonetheless happier than more realistic mates in a marriage's early years.

Vol. 11, No. 3, Dialectrical vs. Formal Logic and Discussions on Social Ethics (Nov., 1977), pp. 323-339 (17 pages) This paper considers the method of idealization and factualization as the main ...