Shawn
I know it’s easy to term beauty as superficial and unimportant as far as relationships are concerned, but somewhere in-between we know that your perceived beauty of your partner is just as much important.
Various researches have found that physical attraction is highly important for a relationship or marriage to be successful. Once the physical attraction starts fading then the relationship would most likely fade along. So this means, how beautiful you perceive your partner to be in the course of the relationship is important if that relationship is going to be successful.
Even when you meet a person newly, your brain is wired to access the person’s looks and this would then determine how your perception and response towards that person would be. If your brain sends signal to you that the person is ugly looking, you might never go on to date that person. And of course, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder; so what’s beautiful to Mr A might not be all that beautiful to Mr B; so this means that our perception of a person’s beauty is what strikes us to take that next step.
For these reasons I mentioned above, I would say that your personal perception of a person’s beauty is important to having a relationship with that person. If you perceive a person to be terribly looking and go on to have a relationship with that person, you might never love that person totally. This is even one of the reasons why a lot of people are ashamed of their partner.
However, inasmuch as I feel beauty is important, it shouldn’t be the cornerstone of that relationship; it shouldn’t be your major or only goal. So many things are more important than beauty; physical attraction might be important but it won’t build understanding in the relationship when mishaps come, neither would it save the relationship from collapse.
That’s our take on today’s edition of El Crema Sunday Love Special; what’s your take? Is beauty important or not?