I’m your friend, and I tell you this because I care about you. When you look at a woman, you’re too selfish to see who she really is. You see only how she might make you happy—by giving you something beautiful to look at, by flattering you, or by becoming an object for your sexual fantasies. If a woman offers you those things, you like her. That’s Imitation Love, because your concern is for your happiness, not hers. You don’t love ‘ugly, fat’ women because they can’t give you the kind

