When Love Becomes an Illusion Sometimes, we don’t fall in love with a person, we fall in love with our perspective of them. It’s easy to imagine who they are based on our expectations, desires, and ideals. We project our hopes and paint their character in the colors we prefer. But this image, as comforting as it feels, isn’t the truth. When we love from illusion, we fall for what we expect , not what exists . We may start comparing the real person to the one we imagined, a
