I disagree, love can be the most amazing feeling ever but love can also make you want to end your life. Make you want to stop existing. Love can be the most excruciating emotion ever. The worst pain you can imagine and then some. But only those who have had to experience losing love know what i mean. Also, those who say you must have love for sex to be good are mistaken as well. They have never had that electric connection with someone they didn't love. Sexual pleasure is one of the greatest gifts we can give to each other. In no other way can you make someone feel so incredible, if only for a short time. So sex can absolutely be incredible without love and love isn't always a wonderful thing. Just because someone else doesn't love you does not change the fact you love them. But love is not a choice. You don't choose to love someone. You realize you love someone. It's not a choice. It's more an understanding than a choice. Also, love is not exclusive. We are capable of loving more than one person. Think of your kids. You love all of them don't you? Yes you do so you CAN love more than one person at the same time. I think the beliefs we were taught about love and sex are in need of an update because there are a lot of misconceptions in these comments.
You wrote a very good article here, and I like it! No doubt, you have experienced tremendous loss in love, as have I, and thank God you actually survived, as did I, because, based on your experience, you articulate your feelings and thoughts very well. Thank you for sharing this.