What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is a story of 4 people each of who have similar but different issues going on. It's a break down of 2 couples, one couple is the deeply in love, we love each other because we just do couple and the other is the married been through hard times couple. My initial reaction to this story was bewilderment as I listened to Terri's story, Terri is telling her husband how much her crazy ex husband who blew his brains out love her and there is this whole discussion of what is TRUE LOVE? I find it interesting that Mel criticizes deeply Terri's Ex Husband when he himself makes a statement or two or three about killing his wife and wishing she was dead and hating her. The room is full of conversation and drinking which toward the end of the story begins to create tension that is so thin you can cut it with a knife. Mel tells his wife Terri to shut up just for once. Terri is trying to play the happy go lucky gal who puts up with the drinking just to basically keep Mel from not losing his temper which brought me to this question? Does Terri make Men crazy because both the guys she has been with seem very tense and one of them was psycho and the other one is borderline crazy. Now the main character sort of has the narrator role he just kind of sits back drinks his drink and listens and sees the expressions on the peoples faces, he admires his gal Laura and thinks the world of her and Mel is his best friend so he just sort of puts up with him and his antic's. Are they dying or close to death? What does the light slowly fading away with almost every page turn represent? What exactly is True Love and does it have a definition? We know Love from 1 Corinthians 13 but do these people exemplify that. I would have to say no, they see love as just a simple object that if lucky enough you fall in love and stay with one person but as Mel puts it one of us could leave and the other could move on and be happy and thats alright with him. So this to me is sort of a twisted perspective and outlook on love and I think in the long run they all yearn for the " old People" who were hurt not because of being broken up in the hospital but because they couldn't see each other.