In our culture, many of us idealize love. We see it as some lofty cure-all for all of life's problems. Our movies and our stories and our history all celebrate it as life's ultimate goal, the final solution for all of our pain and struggle. And because we idealize love, we overestimate it. As a result, our relationships pay a price.

Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't necessarily mean they're a good partner for you to be with over the long term.

The problem with idealizing love is that it causes us to develop unrealistic expectations about what love actually is and what it can do for us.

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