Love is overrated. The realities of a relationship are money and sex. All else around the two is pretending. There can be a good companionship if the two issues are settled.

When young and immature, and hormones are high everything looks like love, prince/princess and a dream.

I only believe in good arrangements, honest agreements as informal as they maybe, but not in love.

People will begin understanding what love is if they can understand this:

~ Get Disney dreams out of the head, you are now a grown up
~ You are not Cinderella (men or women)
~ Relationships are not about rescuing you if you don't have your shit together
~ Life is not like the movies
~ You are not special
~ There is no soul mate. You can't know your soul; nobody will know your soul. There is only a good companion while you get along
~ Life is about realities - bills, budget, pragmatism, health, personal abilities/skills and responsibilities. The sooner you handle them better, the better will be the payoff
~ Drop freeloaders as quickly as possible
~ Your likelihood of getting a good enough match is only as good as you are. Don't expect taller, money, sexy, settled, education, intelligent if you are not any of them.
~ Being horny and liking someone and someone liking you back is not love