The Three Loves
A few months ago I was waiting at Tegel Airport before I could board my flight home to Chicago. I sat near a television screen that was flashing various headlines, but one particular report caught my eye. According to n-tv (the German equivalent of CNN), we only fall in love three times in our lives, which I loosely interpreted to mean that we have three major loves during our life. Here are the three purported loves: #1: The first love is our "childhood love" - or to be redundant, the very first love of our life. Childhood love sounds like you were fourteen when it happened. I was not a child, however, I was twenty. #2: The second love is our "difficult love." This was all of my mid to late 20s and a few months after my 30th birthday. #3: The third love is the "unexpected one." This love began for me at the age of 30. I have had plenty of time to ponder the claim, which one might immediately discredit. Three loves? No! I fell in