Have you ever broken up with someone you loved?

Perhaps I've been lucky. I think.... I've only broken up with people that for a while I thought that I loved. It hurt a lot at the time, but afterwards I always wondered if love was really the right term. It's a pretty serious word... and although I would probably have said it was love at that time... I'm not sure I understood the word at those times. Looking back, I can say that it was definitely better for those relationships to have ended. Just having feelings for someone doesn't always mean that the two of you are suited.

Maybe that's a bit excessively trite of a thing to say, but honestly I'm still not entirely sure what love is. I've broken up with people I cared a lot about, but did I love them? There's something about being in a relationship that perhaps causes people to delude themselves. I think I am in a relationship with someone I love right now, but am I just in the throes of that self-delusion? I don't like to believe so, but it is possible.

I just don't have a definition for the term "love" which I can apply objectively to myself in order to be sure.

For what it's worth, there was a time when my current girlfriend and I broke up, but fortunately that didn't last for long.

Most amazing jew boots