First Love vs. True Love !!!
Back when I was happily married I often told people, "The difference between your first love and your true love is that the first love you think you cannot live without, and your true love you realise that you can live with forever. Sometimes they are the same person, but most often they are not."
Turns
out my ex was neither. Not only can I live without him, but I also
can't live with him. I don't mean to disparage my relationship with him.
I did love him, and part of me will always love him.
However loving him was a choice. I thought it was a mature kind of love, not the all consuming love that I had felt for my "first love." After all how could I ever feel "first love" euphoria again? Naturally the first time I felt romantic love could never be repeated. I can feel in love with a second, third or even thirteenth lover, but never a first again.
