Desamor

When reading Deadwing's recent posts, the Spanish word desmaor came to mind, which stands for the lack or absence of love and affection.

Despite all the love songs, Spanish is far from being a romantic language. When it comes to love, it's even brutally realistic by not believing in eternal love.

There are two verbs which can be used for to be, ser and estar. A bit simplified, ser is used for things that last and estar for those that don't. If love would not eventually turn into desamor, we were to say soy enamorado. But love will go to blazes, eventually - hence, one has to say estoy enamorado.

However, it's still better to experience estoy enamorado, than being denied the feeling at all.