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Love is another feeling that often goes a long time without accurate calibration. Religion has been a source of this calibration as well as an "anti-calibration" as well.

Strangers or one night stands can calibrate this as well. Love is whatever pushes you beyond your limits because it redefines them. It's normally a slow arduous process.

Families (or any social unit) that repeatedly survive disasters widen the lower bounds of Love. Feeling that "Another" wants you for you widens the upper bounds. The former requires the experience of tragedies the upper can be quite drastic.

It takes a long time to actually understand someone. You can only fall OUT of love because you started with such a perfect ideal. "This person really understands me!" No they don't, you don't even understand yourself.

But just for a moment you imagined it was true and your compass was calibrated higher. (though perhaps not correctly and sometimes so high that everyday values feel like depression)

The world currently doesn't understand a properly calibrated feeling of dominance. "Divine" dominance is similar to the feeling an owner has to their dog or cat.

This is done by not training people to progressively manage higher degrees of power. What perversely happens is that because no upper bound is taught, power seeking becomes infinite.

The effort to prevent the rising of power corrupts power. You block off the rising of the power and it just accumulates and festers.