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On love

What does it take for two people to fall in love? And what causes two people to fall out of love?  Beyond all the "love is not rational" and all the idealistic hogwash, there would be a reason - whether the reason can be put in words or not is different -  that caused you to fall in love with another person. And what if that reason that you can't put to words wanes away over time? Do you need to keep finding new reasons? Is finding a reason to love really love? Do you then let yourself fall out of love? Or is that being lazy?  What if you realize one fine day that you and your love do not share anything and are completely orthogonal - no shared passions or hobbies, no shared likes -  the only thing that you share is love but is that strong enough to weather through all the storms in absence of any other support? If love needs something else to support it, is it really love? It did not matter when falling in love at a young age - when the love was still strong, when you ha