I'd like to have a word to the monsters who think we cannot love. I've loved my ex-wife for almost 26 years... and I still love her...though she's not in my life anymore.
Then I've had a series of partners that I loved, including the one that I call my greatest success and my bitterest failure. I adored her.
Or are they saying that we don't love the "Hollywood way?" I do not love in the way Hollywood depicts love. I'm quite capable to say I love you to someone without any notion that:
I want babies.
I want marriage.
I want to move in.
... and probably other stuff that I don't remember.
In Hollywood, however, I love you means that you want to have all of the above, and more. This is asinine.
I went for romantic love above, but we're also capable of the other kinds of love, for sure.