Love is different things to different people at different times. There is no all encompassing definition since all people feel differently.

Love in the beginning can be an explosion of emotion, swelling and making your head swim. Giddiness is a good way of describing it.

Love after the newness wears off can be comfortable, like a soft old sweater. It makes you feel good. It provides warmth, stability and security.

Love after many years can almost be buried in the subconscious. If you've felt love for a person for a long time, the thought and feeling is ever-present, but nothing you need dwell on. It's there and it's nourishing all the time. If it unexpectedly leaves it can be like removing a feeding tube from an ill person. That's why so many older people pass on quickly after losing a loved one -- the nourishment of their love that was so depended upon has gone.

How does sex fit in to all this? Sex is integral to a good long lasting loving relationship. It changes of course. Sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. Sometimes sex doesn't enter at all into a loving relationship. Sometimes relationships don't enter into sex. That's the key. Knowing the difference between love and sex.

You can have one, both or the other, just know which you have!

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"Even a man who is pure of heart
And says his prayers by night
Can become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms
And the moon is full and bright."