Vemos lo que queremos para sentirnos como mejor nos conviene; y ¿qué es la conveniencia si no aquella con antítesis naturaleza resultante de sus maneras subjetivas?
- Melady Guizado, El precio de la idealización (2024).
People always talk about how looking online at girls and wishing you were as pretty as them is draining and bad for you or whatever but idc what they say it’s so fun
I love obsessing over them and admiring them 😭 Is it my Venus in the 8th house idk?
I also have Pluto in the 7th house I guess it could be that
When I've been idealized at the beginning of a relationship, the really big problem from my end is... I idealize them, too.
I want to believe in the chemistry, intense attraction, the "alignment," etc. SO SO BAD - and I wear extremely rose-colored glasses hoping I've found a person I could build a life with.
It's hard for me to see the person they are because I'm falling for the person they *could* be or the person they *want* to be (often mirroring me to varying degrees).
I get swept up, you know? It feels so good, and I'm craving the love and attention so badly - I can't resist it - I dive right in.
And I do think that my love is genuine. When the initial fire starts going down, I do justify to myself that I'm in love with a person, not a caricature... and often, I end up loving them more, when I see their humanity.
I think that's when I can't apply all my previous lessons - what do I accept as part of the process of relationship and connection? what do I NOT accept?
Something I'm really understanding/realizing now: I need to accept a person for who they are at the current moment, with the information I know from past experiences, throughout the whole relationship.
When you're a person who often had to set aside their own feelings and needs (especially in childhood) to keep the peace, it becomes SO EASY to just let things slide in a relationship (and I'm not talking about when someone is sick or has a legitimate excuse for something... I'm talking about when someone feels hurt or feels like their trust in the other person goes down - stuff like that).
You justify to yourself that it won't happen again, or it was a mistake, or even that the issue is resolved...
That's why it's so important to feel what you're feeling, EVEN IF YOU FEEL ABSOLUTELY UNHINGED AND UNSAVORY. Losing connection with who you are, your values, and how you're feeling... only snowballs all of this.
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Then, when you can share your hurt with your partner (which is something all people in a relationship will have to do at some point), that's when the real test comes in: how do they react?
Remember how they react and how you feel afterward.
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And honestly? If the other person thinks you've hurt them or something... and they're not satisfied with the resolution both of you came up with? Ask yourself why they want to be with you if you can't necessarily change that behavior. Ask yourself if you're okay with continuing to impact their trust and/or hurting them?
The post-war idealisation of a balance of external work and domestic work for women led the queen of England, Elizabeth II, to release photographs and film of her with her family, even washing up at a family barbecue.
"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory
"..... if we seem to be idealists and are overestimating or overrating man and looking at him that high here above, you know what happens, we promote him to what he really can be so we have to be idealists in a way because then we'll wind up as the true the real realist....... if we take man as he is, we make him worse but if we take man as he should be, we make him capable of becoming what he can be....."