Love

Either it's love or it's not.

I don't believe in "loving you further" or "loving you better" or "loving him less" or "loving him greater than ever before." Love is to love only  in the superlative sense. It is when you can say to yourself that you cannot love a person any more , because more  is impossible. Anything below it is not less of it, but NOT it. You don't love a person somehow, or in a way, or almost.

Love is when "I love you" would suffice. No added adverbs would make it any truer. I wonder why people usually feel the need to insert "so much" or "to pieces" or any word or phrase that would make it seem that their loving is of the highest, greatest kind. To begin with, you don't say you love a person when it's not of the highest, when it's not of the greatest. That would be to confuse love for something else, and that, I deem, is one of the worst mistakes a person, intentionally or otherwise, could ever commit.

It is an error so destructive that to make it causes hearts getting broken, years getting wasted, egos getting shattered, minds getting dysfunctional. Yet it is an error so significant that, if properly dealt with, can eventually create stronger persons.

So strong that they will never take the risk of loving again (or labeling any emotion as such), because they feel it necessary to veer away from what could possibly be another mistake.