How many days does it take to know love? It's almost an unanswerable question. Some think they know; after all, they usually are hopelessly in love. Just that word, love, is so many different emotions tied together, yet that is the actual essence of love, not really knowing how it feels, but instinctively feeling and knowing it. I guess you could say some of us have known love, sort of, but often it is mistaken for lust, two completely different things. By common consent, you cannot know love without lust, which usually makes any situation worse, by throwing in that unnecessary complication. It's weird how when things fall appart, that the one you "love" and who knew you almost better than yourself ends up hating you or vice versa. The numerous tales of the ex-boyfriends and -girlfriends, best-friends-turned-enemies, and estranged family members, are usually the ones you knew and loved the best.