march 24, 2017 | 4:10 pm | 17/100

I think that true, selfless love doesn’t really exist judging from my experience and my observations of those around me.

When you think about it, romantic love only lasts about 18 months to two years, only because it serves a biological function to bring people together to have sex and perpetuate the species. Attraction is only chemical - a response to pheremones - and there is no way that love between a man and a woman will survive for any long period of time if one of them doesn’t want to have sex. Then, you may as well be living with any one of your platonic friends.

People get sick of each other and divorce, so whatever was holding them together was only a temporary attraction and not a deep, enduring affection. It was probably lust or what they thought was love but was something else - like panic or settling.

The only people who really stay together are those who need to for financial reasons, those who are too scared to be alone, and those who are too lazy to pack up and change their situation.

You see lots of old married couples. Do you really think that they have a real passion for each other or that they are just resigned to their fate of needing a companion to with whom to share life’s burdens and with whom to split bills, rather than really knowing that is the one person they want to be with over all others and why.

Even the supposedly unconditional love for a child doesn’t survive for some people if the parent and child are different enough or have personalities and behaviours that the other one cannot tolerate.

I think love is just a made up scam to perpetuate the human race (who knows why?) and/or to couple up for economic reasons.