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“Happy Ever After”? — Why We Fall In Love With Those That Are Wrong For Us
”And they lived happily ever after.”
You sit back in your chair as the story came to a close, thinking about all that transpired within.
Your face is a little bit flushed as you dream about having such an ending to your own life, and you still hold the book in hand or the remote of the TV as your mind drifts off.
You think about all the celebrities, the Instagram accounts, the Facebook stories and the things you heard your friends say about love and, with a moderately heavy sigh, you wish that you will find the same.
Over the next years you encounter many similar stories, and all seem to have the same kind of premises.
‘Love at first Sight’, ‘Happy ever after’, ‘True Love’, ‘The One’ and the term ‘Soulmate’ all fill your mind with a certain idea of what love ought to be.
Soon you start to look at everyone asking yourself: “Are they that person? Are they my Happy ever after story?”
When you do eventually then fall in love with someone the expectations are astronomical.
You expect of your partner to love you forever, make you happy 24/7 and never ever make a mistake, for that would not be what love is all about.
