who do you love?

I'm happiest with my cats. What does that say about me? Other than, of course, the fact that I have truly awesome cats.

I just watched the inaugural episode of Tell Me You Love Me. It was hard to watch. Mostly because it was so unflinching. I think that anyone in a relationship should watch this show. I truly do. (Insert graphic scenes of sexuality disclaimer)

Sometimes I feel that people just toss the phrase "I love you" out almost too frequently. Love is hard work. Love is painful. Love is eternally confusing. My first experience with the phrase was not, interestingly enough, from my own life. It was instead from an afternoon showing of Robotech on ASN. (3:30 every weekday. I'd just make it home in time.) It was Rick talking to that horrible Minmei. Why oh why wouldn't he open his eyes and see that it was Lisa he should be with? Anyway, that gave me the impression that love was something that caused boys to act foolish for stupid, vapid, self-centered girls.

Maybe the Macross universe isn't the best place to learn about love. But it is what it is.