All The Lonely People Response

Ebert brings up a lot of important points which can be found here.  What really caught my eye was what he said about couples:

"The biological reason we fall in love may be to encourage reproduction. Yet why did nature provide homosexuality if that is the only purpose? Why do people marry with no prospects of children? Babies are not the only thing two people can create together. They can create a safe private world. They can create a reality that affirms their values. They can stand for something. They can find someone to laugh with, and confide in. Someone to hold them when they need to be held. A danger of the internet would be if we begin to meet those needs without feeling there has to be another person in the room."

I found this interesting because it's so true.  Some people want to marry, or be in a relationship because they do not want to be alone in life. The fact is, none of desire to be alone, even if we say we do.  People strive for attention and love, or else they do not feel wanted.  Biology does not play an important role in why we fall in love anymore.  I think we fall in love for multiple reasons, the most important being because we are searching for the one person to spend the rest of our lives with so that we are not ever alone.  Some people then chose to start a family, and create their own reality, like Ebert said, to affirm their values.  Falling in love can reassure what you beileve in, if your partner believes in it too.