Relationship

Why do we cover our eyes while reciting the first verse of the Shmah prayer? 

The first step is to building a healthy relationship is to recognize that the other person has a perspective that is different than my own. 

At first I need to have the ability to occasionally block out my perspective and attempt to understand the other’s perspective, to the degree that my perspective is irrelevant. 

Only then can one "open his eyes", i.e. work to unify both perspectives, i.e. to allow both, seemingly opposing, perspectives to compliment each other.