Why is Love Blind, and When is it a Bad Thing?

When you’re dating a new person, everything feels exciting and fun. You can be floating on Cloud 9 all day, thanks to love hormones. I read in a research article that these can be active for up to 2 years. There’s ways of increasing them beyond that, but that’s when the initial burst begins to flatten.

Love hormones create the rose-colored lens through which you see that person. Even when the love hormones fade, your feelings of love continue. Of course this depends on the person. Someone who doesn’t value relationships or commitment will move on to somebody else. Most of you who are reading this fall into the other category of people who form a long-lasting relationship with that person. This is the kind of person I am as well, which is why you resonate with my content.

We want to believe that person will always stay the same way. However, if we’ve been wearing rose-colored glasses, did we even see them accurately to begin with?

Let’s start the discussion.