Falling means losing your balance, losing your control. Falling is an out of control experience. People who have lost control of their lives often have nightmares of falling. Love is a deliberate action of the will. To love means deliberately to turn ourselves toward another, to give away something of yourself to someone else without regard for return.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
To love is to be turned inside out toward someone outside of yourself - whether toward God or your neighbor. As Jesus taught in the parable of the Good Samaritan, your neighbor, who is the object of your love, is anyone whom God has put in your path who has need of you at any particular moment. That may be someone with whom you have a brief encounter on the street or waiting in line at the grocery store or at the doctor's office. It may be the person who is in the hospital bed next to you. Your neighbor is a member of your household, your husband or wife, your children, your in-laws.