Idiom
love goggles
Meaning
Blindness to criticism or objectivity directed at a person with whom one is in love.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He wears love goggles and ignores all her bad habits.”
“She is wearing love goggles, so she refuses to see that her new boyfriend is actually quite selfish.”
“Despite his friends pointing out the obvious red flags, he remained blinded by love goggles, convinced that his partner was entirely without fault.”
Examples
simple
“He wears love goggles and ignores all her bad habits.”
contextual
“She is wearing love goggles, so she refuses to see that her new boyfriend is actually quite selfish.”
complex
“Despite his friends pointing out the obvious red flags, he remained blinded by love goggles, convinced that his partner was entirely without fault.”
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