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When I said that I didn't necessarily believe in "true love," I meant something along these lines. While I'm sure there is some kind of evolutionary prerogative to keep a breeding pair together over time (which is subject to research) I'm no entirely convinced that what we mean when we say "I love you" to a friend, family member or lover can be considered outside of the cultural milieu within which it was produced. Your example within language interests me, because I've long been curious about the differences in emotional expression across different language types and the control language could exert over our subjective experiences (and to carry it further to Professor Grobstein's point, perhaps language itself is a limiting factor in which topics a scientist elects to pursue: if a concept doesn't exist in a language, it would be difficult to arrange an experiment for it).