We enjoy reading and watching flawed characters because we recognize ourselves in them. We are flawed but so much more interesting that way and insanely human.
And how ever much we begin to examine and recognize those flaws in ourselves they continue to be unrecoverable and accepted
What instead happens is we sometimes try and mask them and show a different side to others until we find that partner, who we open up to wholly, and they embrace them and accept them as part of you.