One of the basic characteristics of romantic love, the very first, is that you focus your mating energy on just one person. That person takes on special meaning. And you dote on them. In the very beginning of love, you can swing between feelings of romantic love for more than one person, but then you focus eventually on just one. I'll say two things about love.
Nobody gets out alive, and people always get hurt.
But it is such a joyous emotion, that we all try again. The Web Copyright 2001 ABC News Internet Ventures.