We are in love with the potential, not the reality

Heard someone saying, "we are in love with the potential, not the reality". At some point in our lives we meet someone with whom we connect in our soul, but coz of their own unhealed issues and childhood trauma they are not able to be who they should be or could be. You see so much potential in them and you stay and be in love with who they could possibly be one day or you could move on. It is a gamble coz you don't wanna waste your life and your time waiting for someone to grow into them coz that may never happen.