Love Is Just Picking Someone Whose Flaws You Can Tolerate the Longest
“This is the 17th time. I still love them.” Love Checklist: attraction ✓, shared values ✓, loads dishwasher correctly: ☐ ongoing negotiation (never resolved since 2018). We examine the soulmate myth’s actual cost, classify flaws across four categories, chart Sternberg’s love components over time, and explain what the seventeenth dishwasher conversation actually means.