Why do we love？A philosophical inquiry

Ah, romantic love - beautiful and intoxicating, heartbreaking and soul-crushing, often all at the same time.

Why do we choose to put ourselves through its emotional ringer?

Does love make our lives meaningful, or is it an escape from our loneliness and suffering?

Is love a disguise for our sexual desire,

or a trick of biology to make us procreate?

Is it all we need?

Do we need it at all?

If romantic love has a purpose, neither science nor psychology has discovered it yet.

But over the course of history, some of our most respected philosophers have put forward some intriguing theories.

Love makes us whole, again.