盲目的爱情让婚姻更幸福
Th ey say that love is blind
And that's probably for the best
Because a new study shows that people who greatly idealize their spouses have the happiest marriages
For the first few years, anyway
The research appears in the journal Psychological Science
Most people mentally accentuate their partners' better qualities
At least during courtship
If we didn't, who would ever tie the knot
But some folks take these fantasies to cartoonish extremes
Now, you'd think such people are in for a rude awakening when they realize they married a real human being with real human flaws
But this new study says it isn't so
Researchers recruited 222 newlywed couples and followed them for three years
They periodically asked the subjects to describe themselves and their partners
And they