I'm going to try to explain how I've been "in love" 3 times.
Two of those times, I was young and rather inexperienced. But I loved my partners whole heartedly. I would have done anything to make them happy. I loved as fully as I possibly could, as fully as I knew how to at that point in my life.
Now that I'm a bit more experienced, I have a deeper understanding of love, what it is to be "in love". Maybe as I age more, gain more life experience, my understanding will grow even more. But up to this point in my life, I consider myself to have been "in love" 3 times, even though my current love is so much deeper than my loves of the past.
Two of those times, I was young and rather inexperienced. But I loved my partners whole heartedly. I would have done anything to make them happy. I loved as fully as I possibly could, as fully as I knew how to at that point in my life.
Now that I'm a bit more experienced, I have a deeper understanding of love, what it is to be "in love". Maybe as I age more, gain more life experience, my understanding will grow even more. But up to this point in my life, I consider myself to have been "in love" 3 times, even though my current love is so much deeper than my loves of the past.