Dear Maggie mac:
Good point: “what even is love?”, my thoughts in context of your thread here:
Love is a combination of feelings and values. Feelings can and do change, as happened to you recently. They can change for the reasons I suggested in my last post to you. But love is also values. A value will carry us through a change of feelings, through times we don’t feel love, so that we act lovingly nonetheless, do no harm to the person we love.
So, is I was you, I wouldn’t be alarmed about the change of feeling. What I would focus on is the Values part of my love for Guy #1. I would examine that part, with him. What is going on there… what is his motivation in regard to you in his future, and does it fit yours, or not? If there is no fit, there is no point to you being loyal (a value) to him. Loyalty has to do with the two of you operating as a team for your mutual benefit. When you are loyal to him, you are loyal to the team, you being one in a team of two, a partnership.
anita