That's a question no one knows the answer to. It's different for different people- some people marry their first kiss, lead happy lives, and have no regrets. Others date around, trying out many different kinds of people and relationships before finding "their perfect match." Personally, I didn't know what love was until I found out, definitively, what love WASN'T. But like I said, it's different for different people.
I think if you're on TFP this late at night, you've already answered the question you just asked us, and you're now looking for the explination of your own answer.
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Sage knows our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
She answers hard acrostics, has a pretty taste for paradox
She quotes in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics she can floor peculiarities parabolous
-C'hi