Love is not so much an emotion as it is an action. You can love [show love] to someone even when you do not feel any love whatsoever, thus we might conclude it is based mostly on principle. Love can therefore only be expressed genuinely through action.
Love is putting the best interests of another at heart and ahead of you own, especially spiritually.
Romantic love, while really really fun, is mainly of a sexual nature and nothing more than a myth. It's a terrible joke God has played on us to trick us into making babies. If it did not feel good, nobody would ever have sex. Don't get me wrong, I am a romantic person, but I have come to make a distinction between romantic love and true love. The honeymoon always ends and then you are left with really really having to love the person you have chosen to be with . . . and sex becomes the bonus, and hopefully you will still enjoy sex with that one . . . he he . . . more importantly, guys, hopefully, she will still enjoy having sex with you.
Bette Middler was an idiot.
Corvin