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The Surprising Benefits Of Being Blinded By Love
Our romantic partners may be riddled with flaws but do our own biases mean we overlook these, even if there are better options on offer elsewhere? As a child of the 1990s, my mind turned to Chandler Bing several times while writing this article. His inability to be annoyed by Janice’s laugh in Friends is, I think, a very good analogy for the idea that we can be blinded by love. An unlikely romantic couple seeming to hit things off when all around them can see how bad a match they are is perhaps the most common trope in romantic comedies. But when people we know are unable to detect…