Love---thanks for sharing your views. I do agree.

Though there's fantasy and folly in young love, it is a threshold to mature love at a later juncture but only if youth is able to wake up to reality, namely, that love is full of pain, heartache and sacrifice.  Love is a never-ending conversation but too often the dialogue ceases for some reason(s). Then bitterness and acrimony sets in--really tragic.  

No school of philosophy can teach people how to love--too often poets and philosophers  eulogise love and their writings lean toward the abstract which is out of line with reality.  

No person loves in the same way as another as we are unique--some want to be showered with love--all the while--and such demand often couldn't be met while others are content with less-- there is no barometer to measure what amount of love in a couple's life is deemed 'adequate'.

It would be well not to think of love in the abstract but rather view it being manifested in the ordinary acts of daily living--the sharing of joy or sorrow,  of the laughter and the tears, of the ups and downs, of the success and set-backs, of togetherness with loved ones, of health and illness, of burdens and tribulations and, in the end, of overcoming all the odds that come in the way and the ultimate celebration of a life together till the parting.

The couple can then say at the end:
We have loved with the fullness of our heart and found herein its beauty, its bliss and its every blessing--we want nothing more.

with best wishes