what is love

baby don't hurt me
don't hurt me
no more

This is gonna sound really pessimistic, but I'm starting to think that love isn't a real thing. What if love is only nature's way of getting us to reproduce? It makes sense to me. I thought I was "in love" a lot of times. But maybe it was just merely infatuation combined with attraction combined with pheromones and other chemicals in my brain. If that's love, then it suddenly doesn't seem so special anymore, so why should I bother with it? Love takes up too much time and energy, and I think I need to spend more time alone or just with friends, and be happy with just that.