My 2c, both from what I read but mostly from life experience:
There is Love and then there is love. For most people with no spiritual understanding or intuitive knowledge, or experience, it is just a solar plexus chakra phenomenon. You just hold tight to the other person, with the feeling of owning him and to him/her, and the dynamic is that usually the most positive of the two has the upper hand. Of course the are many levels of this, but thatās the basis of it and what most would describe as loveā¦ are just the lower emotions (doesnāt equal bad), sex, and mental projections of various kind.
Then there is Love, a real feeling of connection, of a deep understanding of the other person, of an empathy so profound and real you seem to know each other at all times without having to say a word. You just know, and get lost in the other and what you feel with a complete melting of your heart into pure bliss.
Most people arenāt ready for this though, maybe they say they want it but deep inside they are looking for something else, more aligned with social constructs and values. Even if they were, a relationship like this is seldom created easily and freely, as circumstances and people surrounding each other can give a hard time for it manifest on the physical plane. So it can stay as an astral phenomena, where intuitives or clairvoyants can easily feel and see the connection (Iām not talking about cords, even if they are a strong part of most intimate relationships, but Soul phenomena manifesting through the astral and mental planes mostly), while maybe one or even both parts are not even aware of what is happening.
For someone though, when they are ready and balanced enough, and the Soul asks for it, it can truly happenā¦ and that would the experience of a lifetime.
So I understand what you mean. It is bullshit most of the time for two reasons: we donāt know what love truly means, we are mistaken, and when we get really hurt it is because we should have known ourselves better and behaved with self respect at all times, then most drama wouldnāt have happened. You can still suffer though, so even if I donāt like those going from one partner to the other and raising ābody countā, I still can understand why they do it, they are responding to bullshit with more bullshit, but they are still honest with themselvesā¦ and thatās a much better way to cope than getting hurt by foolishly opening to someone that could take advantage of it from one moment to the other, while hoping your āromantic feelingsā are reciprocated.