Something I don't understand, I'm hoping you old people can weigh in, you must've learned something from wondering the earth for all these years right?
What actually is romantic love? What's the difference between love you have for a friend and the love you have for a romantic partner. I could have a best friend, grown up with him since birth, but because he doesn't have the correct genitalia or look the certain way, it'll always be limited to friendship love and be seen as something less valuable than a short relationship with someone who happens to have the right genitalia? How does that make sense logically.
I've been in a few relationships, I like to think that I've loved my partners, but what does love even feel like? In my case, what I felt for them was care, but like a magnified level of care. Is that what love is?
