What We Talk about When We Talk about Love

This story is an attempt to define what love really is. Mel at one point talks about how if he or his wife Terri died, whichever one was left alive would grieve for a little while and then probably fall in love all over again. This is a very true assumption because I have seen it happen to people. I thought was very interesting that both couples were previously married. Mel talks about he really loved his ex-wife but now he hates her guts. He asks. "what happened to that love?" No one in the story can say. I don't have an answer for this, but I have asked other people that have divorced someone else and they said that the love just ran out. I have been taught my life that beauty is only skin deep and this statement is as true today as it has always been. A relationship Can Not be based on looks alone. There has to be a deeper connection. A connection that is so strong mentally as well as physically that it can bind people together. Love is an extremely complicated but yet a simple thing if and when you meet that special someone.
Terri's story was an all to often story-abusive husbands and the so called love they have for their wife's. Terri explains that her ex really did love her but it was not a healthy love. He probably did love her at one time but somewhere along the road he went looney.
The story of the old couple really got me thinking. The love that the old man had for is wife is the kind of love I want to have for my wife when I do find her. He got depressed just because he couldn't see her. That is what I believe love looks like. I believe that is what love is.