I often ask people what love is in their understanding. I get many versions of this phenomenon. In my opinion love is a sacred emotional/physical connection, that will overcome every possible obstacle; I think no matter what, it is impossible to eradicate this connection, even willingly so. And most importantly it's unconditional - there are no expectations, it's just there.

Another thought. How often do we mislead ourselves and others, saying we love that person. Deep in the heart we know, that there's no love...we simply want to cling to this "happiness" because we are afraid of loneliness. We need to have someone to share our happy and not so happy moments with, we need that back-up person, when everything and everyone else turns away from us. So how many of us stay in those half-baked relationships day after day, year after year just because we don't want to feel left out?