It's an interesting perspective on love. One I agree with actually. The key is a healthy love.

being in a relationship with someone is actually quite hard. You have to absorb the inevitable hurts that occur because there is another person, flawed and carrying their own stuff, in the mix.

You gotta somehow know that if the relationship ended that you would be okay, it might suck for awhile, but okay. This makes love a choice and not based on emotional imperative to have that person around.

When something is based on your own choice, then you've got the freedom to love fully and, to me, that's real love.

So yeah, I would say you've got to love yourself enough to handle it, enter freely into it, and just as freely exit it if you had to.