Love is a spectrum of a person's individual emotions, which range in degree from one end of it to the complete opposite. For example, the range may go from love to hate, realistic to unrealistic, romantic to unromantic, or trust to distrust. A spectrum is simply a means to convey "a degree". Much like our personal cognitive mapping, there are no two people that act or think exactly alike. However, the word itself, "Love", is diminishing greatly as it carries over from the Nineteenth Century into the more modern and loosely defined Twentieth Century. The emotional feelings that were once associated with this word are now applied to animate objects such as, a new car, clothing, jewelry and all types of food. As author Andy Rooney puts it so simply in,
             "The Love That's Easy to Hate" (p.565) "Love of a country seems more acceptable and probable than love of chocolate ice-cream." Like so many words today, the true meaning of the word has diminished with time.
             Throughout the ages people have asked the question, "Does true love exist?"
             How can there be an answer when so many people cannot even tell what true love is. The concept of love itself is relatively new. Many of our grandparents' generation never even knew their perspective mate until the wedding. This is because back then children were "promised" to marry at birth by their parents. A dowry was betrothed from the bride's family to the groom's family, ensuring that the groom's family would take care of her. In return, she would become his property and would be expected to cook, clean, bear him sons to work in the fields and obey her husband. It was a symbiotic relationship where often, ironically, love and respect did grow and blossom over time. Arranged marriages were very common in many countries. They actually still exist in s
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