Romantic "love", or natural love, is driven by emotion, which people tend to confuse with love. Rational love - real love - is not driven by emotion, but guided by principles. Indeed, one CANNOT "fall out" of rational love. But one CAN experience a falling out of romantic "love", since it's little more than infatuation. In romantic love, a person loves everything BUT the other person. They love the romantic elements; the idea of being in love. When the romantic elements dissipate, they experience a fallout and interpret their experience as that of no longer being in love. Conversely, in rational love, a person loves the other person. The romantic elements are a byproduct, that is, rational love is still there even in the absent of romantic "love". Unfortunately, people are conditioned by society (though mediums of entertainment like books and television, i.a.) to believe that romantic "love" is the only form of love. It's sad. And a symptom of a bigger problem. http://amirite.net/652115 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_love http://www.divorceinteractive.c...antic_love.asp

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Limey truncation broke the link from divorce interactive. Here's a working link: http://bit.ly/Romantic_vs_Rational

by Anonymous 11 years ago

In my opinion anyone who voted "No Way" doesn't know the difference between love and infatuation

by Anonymous 11 years ago

People can grow apart and not love each other anymore. It's bullshit to say in your opinion, anyone who disagrees with you doesn't know any better.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

OP, you... are not an intelligent being. You kinda sound like one of those assholes who thinks knowing there is a difference between love and infatuation inherently means you know the difference.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I've seen firsthand how someone's love for someone else has gone down though.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

No. If you love someone and trust them, and they repeatedly break that trust, and they change the things about them that they loved, it's okay not to love the person who they've become. You might still love the experiences that you had together, and the person they used to be, but it's perfectly normal to love someone for a while and then not anymore. I'm not just talking about romantic love, but also love between friends and family.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I think you just love certain aspects of people, and they just lose that aspect.

by Anonymous 11 years ago