Here i am experiencing what love is once again.... recognizing that everyone is at a different place in their evolutionary understanding of love. If i can truly understand this i can recognize that people can only express what their present outlook allows them to. Most of us here are trying to expand that outlook to include others and gain a greater knowledge of ourselves and the world. We just have to allow others to move along at their own pace as the great ones allow us to move along at our own pace however slow it may be. If this expresses itself as some that are leaving our lives and others entering it we find that this too is meant to deepen our experience and understanding of love and not to punish us.
It is not something we control. Love is actually an experience of the soul. If people recognize love in another they r very fortunate indeed. But when we begin putting conditions on it.... it slips thru our fingers. Because love is a state of being.