I've been pondering love a bit lately...
This is a great, succinct article from one of my new favorite websites (www.BustedHalo.com)- it has some wonderful reflections and statistics about love, what it means, and how ideas about it have changed over time.

http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/PureSexPureLove14-WhatisLove.htm

One idea I especially like, from the author's professor who's been married over 40 years:

"One afternoon he told our class that getting married didn't make logical sense: Binding yourself to one person for an uncertain future would usually seem foolish. But, he said, love is the necessary ingredient that makes it happen. It makes you starry-eyed and hopeful. It gives you faith and hope. It binds you to another person and blinds you to their faults. And if all goes well, this burst of love will carry you on to commitment-where the real work of a relationship begins."