Thank you for finding this interesting and also for sharing your own experience! This topic really is as fascinating as it gets.

I never spoke of “forever-ity” or grand declarations to my now-spouse back then. I’m a romantic at heart—I wear my heart on my sleeve and can love fiercely. Now, with three children and in this phase of life, I’ve learned that love needs reassurance, tested over time, and endures through ever-changing feelings. What really makes you stay is loyalty—and sometimes, the circumstances.

But if you ask me now, I’d say that love itself is nothing more than a blend of puberty, hormones, natural attraction to the opposite sex, and a few other factors all rolled together.

Couldn't agree more, when you said this:

One thing you should perhaps know is that loyalty wants to be noticed. If you don't notice it, if you don't let your partner feel it, you could wake up alone one morning.

So very true!!!