What is meant by the term "blinded by love"?

Question

What is meant by the term "blinded by love"?

Answer 1

This is a variation on the proverb "Love is Blind" which derives it's origin from Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice.

"Here, catch this casket; it is worth the pains.

I am glad 'tis night, you do not look on me,

For I am much ashamed of my exchange:

But love is blind and lovers cannot see

The pretty follies that themselves commit;

For if they could, Cupid himself would blush

To see me thus transformed to a boy."

January 11, 2005

Love Is Blind: Couples In Love Can't Identify Who Else Is In Love

People who were in love and other people who were not in love were asked to view film clips of couples interacting who were in different levels of emotional involvement. The viewers who were in love were least able to identify which viewed couples were in love.

"Love is truly blind," said Frank J. Bernieri, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at Oregon State University and one of the authors of the study. "People in the study who had the longest relationships, were immersed in reading romance novels and spent lots of time watching romantic movies just loved this research. They all were quite confident of their ability to identify others in love."

"And without exception," he added, "they were, by far, the least accurate in their assessment."

The study was just published in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. Bernieri co-authored the paper with lead investigator Maya Aloni, who was an honors undergraduate at the University of Toledo when Bernieri was on the faculty there. She is now at State University of New York-Buffalo pursuing graduate studies.

A team of clinical psychologists at McGill University in Montreal filmed 25 couples for another study and used a battery of common assessment tools -- including the Sternberg Love Scale, the Hatfield Passion Scale and other relationship measures -- to determine the depth of couples' affection for one another. All of the couples had been together for at least three weeks; many for several months.

On film, the couples were seen interacting casually. Bernieri showed snippets of each couple to a series of volunteers and ask them to assess the depths of the filmed couples' feelings for each other.

"The range of accuracy was really extraordinary," Bernieri said. "Those who were best at it were about twice as good as those who did the worst. Imagine observing 10 couples and trying to identify the five who love each other the most, and the five who loved each other the least. If you were in love at the time of the study, you would only get three or four out of 10 couples -- so you'd be wrong twice as much as you'd be right."

"But if you weren't in love, you'd get it right six or seven times out of 10," he added. "That, in my book, is a huge difference."

If being drunk on alcohol at the time of getting married can be grounds for annulment then why can't being in love also be grounds for annument? After all, people in love are in an obviously naturally drugged mental state and they obviously can't think straight. So shouldn't people in love be treated as suffering from a mental handicap or a special form of mental incapacitation? Should the law treat lovers as legally competent to enter into the serious and important contract of marriage?

Answer 2

When a guy is madly in love with his girlfriend, he does not just become blind and not seeing his bad habits or attitudes but he become deprived of judgment/reason/sense, deceived, deluded ... concerning the person whom he's in love with.

Answer 3

U are so in love with person that even if they wrong you, you cant see it like everyone on the other side looking in.They can never do any wrong in your eyes.In ur eyes no matter what they do they are regarded as heroes

Answer 4

I will make it simple - you can't see anything but Love............

Answer 5

Blinded by love refers to the nature of man when he feels love towards another human being. He ignores all possible norms, routines and logic because he does not see it due to the powerful feeling love has.

Answer 6

Because A loves B, A doesn't see any of B's faults.

Answer 7

Hello,,to lose all sight of the surrounding world and any of its difficulties due to the emotional attraction of inner peace.

Answer 8

it can mean that the person doesn't see the faults/differences of their partner, as in the saying "love is colorblind"

or it can mean that since they are in love, nothing else in the world matters to them, blah, blah, blah.

the first one inspires me, the second one makes me sick, in case you wanted to know.....

Answer 9

A person is blinded by love,when they are so caring,loving and kind to the point,that they don't see the possible dangers before there selves,you wont see the others faults that if you were not blinded,you would see..Hear a sight to read as well.

http://www.peterrussell.com/PassingThoug...

http://www.spiritisup.com/loveisblindkb....    ,this ones a poem about blind love..

Hear the lyrics of a rolling stone song,that give a good sense to the term blinded by love..

http://www.keno.org/stones_lyrics/blinde...

Another way of saying it,is for a person not seeing the deceptions of the other,l**k being blind sided..

Answer 10

it meant that when one is in love.....one's senses shall be blinded.....and this happens to almost everyone that felt love.....its just a natural thing....if one is deeply in love....then, the love sensation itself will blind them without them realising it.....thus, when such a thing happen,the one's blinded will see nothing more rather than the beauty and specialness in his loved one.....his beloved shall be considered as a perfect living thing in his life....such a thing is normal in life.....trust me.........i leave the rest to you......