Gaze an Eagle Blind: How a Look Can Work on Your Relationship

My husband does this thing. And he may not realize it, but he’s working on the relationship.

He stops everything he’s doing, pulls me close…and just looks into my eyes. He doesn’t say anything…he just looks at me with this fervent – even reverent – look. Nothing else in this world makes me feel more loved than that look.

The link between love and looking has long been the stuff of song.

Can’t take my eyes off of you…

I only have eyes for you…

My eyes adored you.

And Shakespeare himself wrote of the power of a loving look in his play, Love’s Labour’s Lost. He said that “A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind.” Okaaaaay.

There has been considerable research on how nonverbal cues, particularly those coming from the eyes, affect our behavior. Apparently, eye contact has secret powers. It can indicate interest and even love.

So, what do you think? I dare you to try it tonight and see what happens.

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby