Random thought: I think we don't truly have a grasp on what it truly means to "be in love". It is an abstract wish that several feelings are attached to. When you experience certain feelings as a result of interacting with a certain individual, you brand the idea as being in love, which is okay, I suppose, but I don't think there is a generally acceptable universal feeling that qualifies as "being in love". Everyone experiences it differently, an evolutionary force that pushes us towards the idea of reproduction. It first convinces you that you are "in love" and once you give in, it releases you and you get exposed to the realities of how abstract an idea "being in love" is! As you were!