"We're clever but we're clueless"

Why is it that people see someone totally different when they're in love?? Actually, more often than not, when they think they're in love.

I read somewhere once that when you love someone you still see the imperfections but you see past them and love them. I agree with that. However, it doesn't mean that someone can treat you like crap or as their slave or whatever and you let them off with it and even worse, ignore the fact that they do it to begin with!

It seems to me that everyone is doing it at the moment (or in the recent past). I don't get it. If my boyfriend has had faults, I have always known about them and I haven't acted as if they don't exist.

That's the sign of a mature relationship, one in which you don't need to kid yourself that the other person is perfect because you don't have to worry about the flaws, you know that it doesn't affect how you feel about that person at all. THAT is the sign of a proper relationship. Not one where you have to convince yourself that the other person is great because you know if you see that person the way they truly are, you'll be out of the door before they can say "Call me."