What is love? (Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more).

"Loving" someone just because of how they make you feel, is not healthy love.

Healthy love is when you love a person for who they individually are first, not only because you feel good in their company.

Feeling attraction solely because of the experiences you have with another person, is an immature feeling; often termed puppy love, and not taken seriously by those outside of the relationship, for good reason.

There's no true and lasting romance in simply going with the highs of mirroring, or just the first rush of sensual emotions with another.

Lasting romance is in not only things like patience & compromise, but should early on include the strong desire to know who the other person is in general; their experiences, views, hobbies, how they behave around different types of people, and more.

It surprises and dismays me how many people stay in long term relationships when they clearly have little to no interest in knowing who the other person is in general.

Romance lasts, and inspires people all over the world when both members of a couple care more about who and how the other person is, than what that person can do for them in particular.

I hope you were amused by the title of this post.