The Word

Have you heard? The word is love.
-Todays topic is just that. Love. The most complicated four letter word in the history of everything. I kid you not.

My boyfriend knows that I think the word love is much too overused. And has observed that I will probably not be saying the L word to him for a while.

We've been dating for about 3 weeks, and he has decided to use it. Officially. As in, he really means it.
-Somehow I doubt that he does.

No one EVER means it.

My parents used it to death, and then when I was 3, the love between them somehow vanished, and I was thrown into the chaos of divorce and a custody battle, the dust of which did not finally settle until perhaps 4th grade.

"Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight."
-I'm Looking Through You, by The Beatles

People just don't fall in love in 3 weeks. They just don't. I don't know if I will ever truly be in love. That's my take on "the word".
-What's yours?