The willful adoption of a responsibility to benefit the beloved while holding no reasonable expectation of reciprocation. What counts as beneficial is based entirely on the lover's understanding of the beloved. Since
people don'
t even fully understand themselves, let alone anything not themselves, it is reasonable that sometimes what the lover expects to be beneficial to the beloved will either be ineffectual or negatively impacting. This is a prescriptive
definition.
Lots of women seem to love
shopping and drama for some reason. Many children love
ice cream. I love my children. I loved my
wife all of her life.