People spend their how life searching for what they call love, but what is it really? defines it as a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. Some people will define it as the way you feel when you look at someone, and some people will just say you "just know" when it happens. There can be "love" at first site or love that grows overtime. Still love is the thing people want in life.
I feel that what people really want is to feel a connection to someone besides their immediate family, and that's really what they are searching for; their just defining what they want as "love". The true meaning of the word has become jaded overtime, and very few people actually know what they are searching for.
True love is something that grows over time, it doesn't just happen the first time you meet, see, or just hear someone. So based on that "love at first site" (which isn't always site, some people think they can be "in love" with someone they have never actually met or saw, just someone who's voice they have heard, or texted with) is real just the initial attraction to some person, not actual love. Love takes time and effort to achieve, it can't just happen in one second, minute, or even hour, or day, it takes years.
In the past years the divorce has been on the rise, I say its due to the fact people don't really feel like love is some sort of work, all people see is the fakeness of what movies, and songs, and books, define portray love as, which is not a very accurate portrayal. Things don't happen like they do in movies; real life is real and has real issues that don't always resolve themselves in the end.
When people see the movies and read the books, and hear the songs, that are telling them what they want love to be, it confuses the average person, and they start to think. "Is my husband/wife perfect like that character?" "Did we fall in love at first site?" "We don't always get along, and we fight over stupid things, are we normal?" "Are we still in love?"
A real marriage is not going to be perfect, you will fight and have doubts, but people are so quick to just throw it away after one stupid incident, because they think its over, or that they have to move on to the real thing, even though two days, hours, minutes even, they thought they had the "real thing", so they say they want a divorce, and that's why the rate has gone up in the past years, because no one knows what love is anymore
I haven't always thought this, in high school I had the "love" of my life, then he was gone. Forever never coming back. It was then I realized what I know now.
LOVE DOES NOT EXIST!