To you:
"If you had never seen flight—as in a bird or plane—and one day spontaneously rose into the air, would you be able to tell someone that you were flying? If you never knew what a pork was, but was given a piece to eat, would you be able to tell someone you were eating pork? This is how your brain works and operates; there are many things you have experienced that do not have labels upon which you can attach them. If you abhorred someone—there was something about them that was irrefutably repulsive—yet you did not understand dislike, how would you know what you feel about them? So tell me this, you say that you have never loved nor been in love, truly, but if you’ve never witnessed it, felt it or understood it, how can you be so adamant that this is true? I am willing to bet that if I were to describe what people in love do, how they feel and how they act, you will be able to relate to an instance or instances where your feelings were the same. Would you then still deny that you’ve ever been in love—or—will you understand then that you might have been in love, perhaps madly and head over heels in love, but you just did not know how to explain what it was you were feeling?”
“I am willing to bet this because you used other terms—jealousy, competition—to describe that which you have felt. We’re both aware that these are feelings and conditions with which you are familiar. However, have you ever considered that it might be insane to associate familiar terms with uncharted territory, or should you not first approach the uncharted territory as pure as it is—a blank slate—and then give it its own moniker before assigning associations?”
“The bottom line is, I truly believe that you have been in love. It is just unfortunate that you didn’t realize it, because you didn't recognize it."
