Crazy Little Thing Called Love

I just recently read and wrote a review on a group Bible study book about God's love. I wasn't impressed w/ the brevity of the book and called my review "Short-Lived Love." But while the book may have been short-lived, it's human "love," not God's that just doesn't seem to last so long. Of course, part of the problem is that human "love" is often not love at all. I think many times, if not always, we enter into relationships, sometimes just about any relationship with someone of the opposite gender, just to have that relationship, hoping that that other person will be the thing that rings the bell for us, we'll reach the elusive happiness quotient, finally we'll be satisfied. Our brain may tell us life doesn't work that way. But we don't listen and keep hoping and being disappointed.
Others of us are unwilling to have a relationship with a member of the opposite sex because we're waiting for that magic, that perfect someone to come along, and leary of anyone who doesn't have that glow. So we hang off to the sidelines for quite a while before we finally go for it and then, as everyone else has discovered, we're let down.
Maybe we find someone we think "is the one," but our interest isn't reciprocated, so we spend much of our time pining after "the one that got away" who for sure would have made our lives all sunshine and rosebuds.
In stories, we're told it's so hard to get two people to love each other at the same time. It's a brief, sweet joy when it happens, and then the story quickly comes to a close, or it goes on and on, as the relationship dissolves because of ennui and other distractions.
I'm no expert, but as a Christian, I've access to the Expert, and I'd like to explore some ideas about biblical human love--man and woman, happily after forever, sanctified, marriage kind of love.
First of all, what we're talking about.
Second, how we get it.
Third, how we keep it.
Stay tuned.