Jul 17, 2026 · 12 min · 11 segments
**“Projection in Love: Are You Seeing Them… or Seeing Yourself?”** You say, “They’ve changed.” But what if… you never really saw them clearly to begin with? In this deeper, more incisive episode…
Kehinde OjoHost
You look across the room at the person you used to stay up until 3 a.m. talking to.

What if they didn't change at all? What if they are exactly who they have always been, but you are finally taking off the glasses you forced them to wear? What if, for the first six months of the relationship, you weren't actually looking at them, you were just looking at a projection of yourself? Welcome back to Love Science Today.

It is slightly more uncomfortable because we are talking about something that quietly, invisibly shapes almost every romance on earth.

Projection, not what they did, not what they said, but what you saw that was never actually there.

You look across the room at the person you used to stay up until 3 a.m. talking to.

What if they didn't change at all? What if they are exactly who they have always been, but you are finally taking off the glasses you forced them to wear? What if, for the first six months of the relationship, you weren't actually looking at them, you were just looking at a projection of yourself? Welcome back to Love Science Today.

It is slightly more uncomfortable because we are talking about something that quietly, invisibly shapes almost every romance on earth.

Projection, not what they did, not what they said, but what you saw that was never actually there.
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