Its interesting the cultural conceptions of love. In the layers of western culture, the idea of the grand supremacy of romantic love is imbedded. Love should be passionate and consuming. It should trancscend all boundaries, it trumps all other relationships: friends, family. Everything pales in comparsion to the fire of this kind of love. It is to be longed for and treasured.
In eastern cultures, traditionally, this kind of love does not hold this special place. The grand ideal of love is not the one that should trump everything. It is familial love that is held sacred and trumps everything else. The stories in which the parties are forced a part because of their families are steeped in the idea that you will come to a sticky end if you disobey this fundamental creed.
Sometimes I am struck by an amusing song lyric "Love is a chemical/straight from the genitals"
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