Errr actually no, it's not a good thing to abandon nearly everything, that's actually pretty unhealthy behaviour.

Love is not about abandoning all you know and having your world revolve around 1 particular person. Yes they will take up alot of space in your head and so forth, but it's up to you to draw the line and say, ok, enough day dreaming, I need to get back to reality.

The healthiest and happiest relationships are those ones where you each carve a space in which your partner fits nicely and you two navigate this new road together. Not the lets pretend nobody and nothing else exists and become completely enmeshed in each other we may as well be each other's oxygen.

Do you know what happened to one of my very best friends, one who was more like a brother than friend?

He finally found love and ignored the world.

He stopped coming to family gatherings like baptisms, Christmas, general socials.
He stopped being available for hiking, because his new gf wasn't into it, stopped playing guitar with my brother, stopped our decade old tradition of movie night ,because it cut into his gf time. He bailed on his friends and family one by one by one...

Then surprise! they had a baby, and he's life became even more all about her, even his off days, were no more, he had to spend that time changing diapers.

He alienated his friends one by one, he was disinterested in anything that was not related to that girl.

Three years this went on, and then he starts visiting randomly, popping in after work, watching movies.... 2 weeks in I couldn't contain my curiosity anymore.

Guess what? He found she was cheating on him and that's why he was looking for his family all of a sudden.

Now not to be a beech or anything, but after 3 years of giving me the cold shoulder I wasn't exactly keen to sooth his broken heart.

Moral of the story?
Don't make the mistake of nothing matters except love, people leave, people cheat, people die. And when they do, who and what do you have to fall back on?