I should probably tell the story first and save my point for the end of the story but, I don’t trust your attention span is that long or my writing is that good.

Why do woman affirm beliefs or ideas they know are wrong or not true.

Read some of the story. It’s a true story.

My wife has brown eyes no one in her family has ever had blue eyes, but she wants our child to have blue eyes. One night we are cuddling on the couch I was explaining to her our child can’t have blue eyes because brown is dominant gene. So I started going through my families eyes.

I have blue eyes, my mom has blue eyes, my father brown eyes, his father brown his mother blue I couldn’t remember if my sister’s eyes are brown or blue so I called her to ask.

I have my sister on speaker phone I tell her that we were talking about eye color and why. Then I ask her if her if her eyes are blue or brown

My sister responds “I have green eyes”.

I’m like “Re stop that’s impossible. For real what color?”. She gets a little attitude and says “there green”.

I think she’s kidding I’m starting to remember hers are brown and I don’t say it I think it “Her eyes just not pretty enough to notice” so I tell her the truth. Genetically it is only possible for her to have green eyes if she were adopted and all those years I teased her about being adopted this was the proof. I’m just joking but she gets upset. She sends me a close up picture of her brown eyes with two tiny green spots.

She looks it up on Google and then calls my mom, our brother, the aunts and my uncle and asks every one if she is adopted bc google and I told her it’s impossible to inherit green eyes.

It’s not even possible to have green eyes if my mother had an affair blue is dominant to green eyes.

It turns out when we were children my sister was jealous bc every one said I had beautiful blue eyes. To make her feel good my mother and grand mother told her that she had beautiful green eyes.

For 35 years she has looked in the mirror and seen her brown eyes and is still convinced her eyes are green. She put on her drivers license that she has green eyes. She took a picture I blew it up and sent it back she still wouldn’t admit her eyes are brown.

All bc of 35 years of affirmation of something that is impossible and untrue her belief is so strong she can’t recognize the truth when she looks in the mirror.

Now this is an example of affirming a lie to causing little to no harm. But if affirmation is such I powerful thing to woman why would you affirm things you know are not true.

Or my sister is just crazy af