Monk

I'm not going to doubt you. I'll just make what might strike you as an interesting quirk of my thinking, and that is I don't really see how a relationship can be love without first going through earlier stages, such as interest and curiosity and then infatuation and then a lot of interpersonal dealings - learning how to negotiate for what each wants and learning how to fight and make up. I know it's easy to speak of love, but I confesss to hearing this as an expression of high infatuation. I'm not debating you, Miss Next, and I am limited in worldly and personal experience, but I'm sharing because you might find my thought processes interesting.