What is Love, Really?

What is love? Fixation? Focus? Fondness? Feelings? A bunch of feelings that intertwine and oscillate? 

People say "love is a verb" which, I mean yea it is, but does love mean tolerating behaviors that you wouldn't exhibit nor agree with? I suppose for a parent, that is very well the case. Most parents love their children unconditionally. In romantic relationships....not so much. The divorce rates are sky-high, but does that mean those two people didn't really love each other? Should you even marry for love? Love is quite dangerous if I do say so myself. It makes you do crazy things...or can you even call the part that makes you do crazy things "love". Don't go blaming your complete lack of self-control on such a fickle thing. Nobody told you to key Tayzon's car or slap the fire out of your baby mama....harsh but very real. I feel like when some people say they "love" you it simply means they appreciate you for helping them maintain an illusion. They appreciate how in control being with you makes them feel. They appreciate what you add to their life which is simply validation. Instead of saying "I love you" just say I feel validated with you. That's what it's giving to me. 

Interestingly enough, people LOVE to quote the famous biblical scripture from 1 Corinthians 13: "Love is patient, love is kind, etc" BUT that is the NIV version. In the KJV "love" is "charity" and reads:

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

Something to think about, yes?