On love

How can be define being in love? What is "being in love?"
Sure, we hear about it in love songs, watching soap operas, reading books.
When I was younger, I searched this incredible feeling I kept reading about. This heart-throbbing, confusing, over-whelming feeling which would make my world go wild.
The good news is that for me, it's finally happened.
But what is love? All right, I'm only 23, relatively young and definitely unexperienced in "love" matters.
I remember annoucing to my family that I was in love at seven. I did have a boyfriend at such an early age, but I can't call it love. It was curiosity, a faint hint of lust perhaps, but definitively not lust.
Some people search for lust. Others search for love. Still others look for a melange of both.
Both, I think, are essential. No lust, no sex drive. No love, no respect.
Sounds simple, and yet life isn't at all that simple. Wish it were.