Good post, Tranquility.

I think things like this happen to many of us when we are young. The racing pheromones and hormones can be overwhelming. Add to that, our popular culture glorifies an unrealistic ideal of what true love should be, in film, TV, and above all, popular songs.

Anything else than a feeling that the earth is moving for us causes us to wonder if it's really love.

I like Patty's quote that falling madly in love is madness in the old meaning of insanity. Sometimes, when I was getting in too deeply with someone I knew was bad for me, I'd think of a line for Shakespeare's King Lear, "O this way madness lies."