Is true love nonsense?

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I certainly love my credit card from the bottom of my heart and Im very offended by this topic .

Seriously though I guess it depends on what you mean by true love.
A lot of people for example like to bring up some octogenary couples that still hold hands as an argument and so on.
There are plenty of valid arguments for each side and its going to be pretty hard to change someone´s view because our views are usually based on what we´ve experienced offline and they wont change unless something happens

Yes it cannot be sensed or measured empirically
Love is felt in the heart
Look at the mountain of money being made in the name of love
Peps want love

I do not think true love is nonsense, what I think is nonsense is the idea of perfect love, that love will make everything better forever and no one will ever hurt again. The fairy tale is happy ever after, the ending which happens before the story of love progresses.

Love sees perfectness in the one whom it holds in its heart, but human love can never be perfect. There will be pain, and brokenness, there will be sorrow and storms, there will be anger and hate and distrust, insecurity and fear.

True love knows all of these things will be present and it enters into the relationship anyway. I have a feeling that true love includes the experience of knowing that you love your partner more than anyone else and that your greatest concern is for them. When life removes friends and sometimes even family, when they are busy and distracted and have no time, true love will stand by.

I want to add that giving up on trusting others will save one from pain but it will also deny one an experience, the only way in is through risk, to give to another all that you are. How else will true love be found as something that exists?

I trusted my boyfriend with all of me, and I'm in love with him because he didn't reject me, he accepted me as a whole person. Every time I trust him there is a chance that he won't respond according to my needs, but that's a part of relationships, surrender regardless of cost. I consider this relationship true love because there has been no other in my life to accept my faults and my potential, my weaknesses and my strengths, to encourage me to move when I'm paralyzed, to reassure me when I am afraid, to comfort me when I'm sad and always want the best for me, even if I disagree as to what that might be!

If true love is nonsense, then my relationship doesn't make sense, but it's the only one I live for.