Tribe

Have you ever felt that insane I-miss-you-all-the-time-and-can't-stop-thinking-about-you feeling? Yeah, me too. When you first start seeing someone you really like, it's like you temporarily lose your mind every time they take more than 5 minutes to text you back. You want to be around them all the time. You feel more powerful, and the world becomes a less-terrifying version of itself.  You love this person, right? That's what that is... right?  Um. Well, not really.  Okay but what about that feeling when someone becomes a part of your story? You've been around one another for long enough to have learned the quirks and intricacies of your personalities. You are companions through life, sharing space and time together. Now, that's love... right? Again, not quite.  We have a problem in American English. We use the word love to describe too many things. We love coffee, and we love our partners. We love Queer Eye, and we love our families. And then we get confused, watching movies where that "I'm on drugs