How Do You Know?
How do you know that you’re in love? Is it the quickening of breath? The pace of your heartbeat? Are you light, elevated above the floor, clouds under your feet?
Another question: how much of knowing love, identifying love, specifically romantic love, is charted for us through social scripting? How much of what we know is boy meets girl, and he is handsome and she is pretty, and they laugh and hold hands and kiss, and he brings her roses and opens the door for her on dates?
How would you know that you were in love if none of these signifiers are present?