[quote]You'll need a lot more than just a few arguments to convince them they need you. They learned the hard way how it is to live without love.[/quote] 1) Real love doesn't come from need, but [u]want[/u]! If it's based on need, it's co-dependency. It's based on "what I can get from you." If it's based on want, it says "I don't need you, I'm sufficient already, but adding you to my life will make it better". But even further than that, [u]real[/u] love is based on wanting the best for the person of your focus as in "I want to give of myself to make [u]your[/u] life better." 2) if you have to convince someone that they need you, it's not love. Love transcends reason. 3) you don't need to be "attached" to someone (dating, marriage, sex) to truly love them. But our first world society has grown so obsessed with "attached" love that it has bought into the lie that in order to love another person on a deep level, there must be dome romantic connection to it as well.