Modeling love

“Despite the strong positive feelings that characterize newlyweds, many marriages end in disappointment. To understand this shift, the authors argue that although newlyweds’ global relationship evaluations may be uniformly positive, not all spouses base their global adoration on an accurate perception of their partner’s specific qualities. …Thus, love grounded in specific accuracy appears to be stronger than love absent accuracy.” From ‘To Know You Is to Love You: The Implications of Global Adoration and Specific Accuracy for Marital Relationships’ Neff, L.A. and Karney, B.R. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. March 2005