Critical Thinking: Can you love someone...

[AniamL]

I'm 17 now, and I do think that for two years I was truly in love - the kind of "happiliy married for 30 years" love I assume you're talking about. She embodied every virtue I desired, and some days I would spend 7-8 hours just talking to her, yet in two years we never experienced the type of cliché touchy-feely girlfriend/boyfriend relationship that high school is so famous for (and I never really developed much physical attraction). I loved her more than my family or anyone else I knew, and I think that perhaps I would have died for her. (But she spent a term on a farm on Vermont in one of my school's abroad programs and she became a very different person, which I do consider the saddest experience of my life, but that's a completely different [and 5-page] story)