NO matter how romanticists have tried to color it ever-sweet, and despite the sardonic claim of cynics that it is overrated, love is the tough, essential answer to the riddle of human existence, of human wholeness and happiness. to live is to love. still it must be conceded that the cynics have a good set of statistics. it's not just the backlog of business in the divorce courts. it's the general fragmentation of the human family, parents against children, brother against brothers, etc. if love really is the answer, it seems quite certain that the efforts of humans to find this answer in love-relationships have a high mortality rate. love works if people will works at it. but why does love so often fail? what is the "work" which love demands, and why are we sometimes unwilling to undertake it?