>>27 honestly i find the premise of this thread to be juvenile. nothing personal and theres nothing particularly wrong with that per se, we're all juvenile at one time or another. but this is trite. theres a thread like this on any board anywhere discussing romance. theres countless threads about it in the archives right here. nothing said here is worth repeating anywhere.

heres one way to look at it. youre talking about simplifying something that's been almost universally considered one of the most complex human emotions since man started writing literature. greater minds than you or i have struggled to define love in languages that are more precise about it than english is.

the assertion that you can umbrella all love under a single term is as much nonsense as the need to do so in the first place. truthfully, i feel that doesnt even merit explanation.