>>9124836the way I see it, OP means that the expression of love in human society is limited by the need to express it in the context of maximal reproductive success. This is the case due to many generations of Darwinian selection.
I suppose it can be seen most easily in the behavior of women: women desire a strong and almost sociopathic type of partner due to natural selection privileging this type in terms of capacity for having offspring; however women will be unsatisfied on a spiritual level with this type of partner and usually betray this type and initiate a divorce.
Likewise if a woman listens to her spiritual instincts and pairs up with a man who is capable of pure and beautiful love, she will become restless due to biological and hormonal realities which will continuously act to make her see him as weak and pathetic. She will be inclined to either cheat on him or divorce him just as she did with the previous character.
This is a clear example of how the at-odds nature of biological and spiritual ideals of love degrade both in practice, and so-called "true love" is thus a high and seemingly unachievable ideal.
That's what I think, at least.
