Daniel,There are a thousand methodologies of what it means to be broken and lost. As though there is a step by step guide, only waiting for us to notice the cracks…
It’s impossible to tell because we love so differently.
The way I show my affection is through a showering of lavish gifts, which Louis often condemns as being superfluous and shallow. Whereas Louis expresses love in much more subtle ways, through other intimacies. A flash of a genuine smile, the gentle squeeze of a hand. It sounds as though I fully understand this and have worked around the way our “love languages” clash, but that is far from it. I am saying all of this now from a very analytical standpoint, but there are instances where these differences can be very disheartening to the both of us.
With that being said, however, there is no way to calculate which one of us loves more. I suppose I am much more prone to grand romantic gestures, but there is no equation that could be employed to figure the true sum of our affections. I do not believe our bond can be quantified.