Rose Tattoo, I hope you don’t mind me adding a note to Anita’s question at the end of this post.

I re-read my post and realized that I made it sound like we never truly fall in love. I didn’t mean to say that. We do fall truly in love, and it’s wonderful when it happens! I was thinking more that sometimes liking someone and the hormones in the beginning stages of a relationship can be confused with love.

[Anita, I’m not sure what the protocol is for replying to other replies. Thanks for your offer to share. My urgency was concern for Rose Tattoo and other people’s heartache. I was putting emphasis on how she and they should not let themselves be taken for granted. I wish that relationship health and well being was something that was taught in schools or that people just grew up talking about openly. Maybe then people wouldn’t feel so alone in their experiences and struggle, and would feel less fragile when relationships end.]