An all too common tragedy within relationships is when our desire to see the best in people loses touch with reality. Why do our ways of thinking transition so effortlessly from optimism to unattainable expectations? When we romanticize the people we have desperately attached ourselves to, hopes are shattered and we’re left alone. But who is our disappointment truly a reflection of?

Perhaps this fantasy is nothing more than a fatal projection of everything in this world that we are craving—yet lack—internally.