Love- I have a lot to say on love...

Let me start by saying that while I found this story amusing, I also found it very annoying. Every two seconds I was reading this person says or that person says, even though I could tell who was speaking without all of that. It could have been written without all the redundancy. What I found amusing was the different views each character had on love. My take on previous loves is that each person has a soul mate. I am on my second marriage and while I thought I loved my ex at the time, I realize now that it wasn't real love. It wasn't this intense. My ex was abusive, like Ed. I can identify with Terri because I really believed if he didn't love me he wouldn't hit me, he would just ignore me instead. Today I know that is false. But back to soul mates. Some people go their entire lives just existing from one relationship to the next or stuck in a routine. But they never really find their soul mate and therefore never experience true, deep, intense, passionate love. Nick and Laura never comment on whether they have loved before. Mel and Terri just assume. Based on their comments and reactions to each other, I think they might have that real love. I never understood the concept of your mate being your best friend until I met Tom. I don't only love him, I really like him too. We enjoy spending time together just doing nothing. We can talk for hours about nothing at all and never get bored with each other. And basically, that's what I talk about when I talk about love. One other thing is this is a lot like the last two stories in that it links love and death, both obviously and subtly in two instances. First is the obvious- Ed. He tried to kill Mel and Terri and in the end killed himself. Second- the subtle reference is the old couple Mel saw at the hospital. The old man was sad because he couldn't see his wife and they had both almost died. Even though they didn't, it was linked because they almost died and the thought that he could have lost her and not been able to see her was a thought he could not bear and it caused him great depression and grief.