Love makes one trustworthy by genuinely incorporating the beloved’s interests

Evidence

When I fall in love with you, I partially take your interests as mine. I actually want you to be happy—and not only because I will benefit from your happiness. This is, de facto, a strong instance of my encapsulating your interests in my own, which is to say that you can trust me to some perhaps substantial extent. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 649

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows how romantic love is a paradigm case of Hardin’s encapsulated-interest definition of trustworthiness.