Because it's too sweet when things are going well, too painful when it's not. The process makes development heavenly addicting; separation, a gateway to hell.
It's enlightening when you're hitting the high notes. Felo-de-se never became such an attractive propostion when you're missing it.
Call me crazy, but chivalry is embedded deep within my soul, I believe we should court this way. Whatever the outcome may be, go bloom and then wilt, rinse and repeatβbetter be a flower, than die a seedling.
I think it's the way people are supposed to love each other. You already feel the effects of it, consumed, drowning in it, before your heart even realizes it.