Imagine a young man meets a woman on a dating website. He sees her picture and is infatuated, but upon meeting her things don’t go well. She says she doesn’t like baseball, but the man does, so he insists that she does too. She says she prefers nights in, but the man is convinced that she actually wants to go bowling, his favorite hobby. In short, the man won’t listen to her, but is emphatic that he loves her. What’s wrong with this scenario? There are a couple problems here and one is that the man isn’t in love with who the woman really is. He’s in love with a figment of his imagination. He’s picturing her, but with all of his own tastes projected onto her. He doesn’t want her; he wants a woman made in his own image which means that he’s actually just in love with himself.
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