Happily Ever...NOT!

I recently started understanding the truth behind Happily Ever After, it includes:
One joint account and a few other bank accounts he doesn't know I know he has, less use of the word US and more use of the word ME, late nights working overtime which are really late nights unwinding at Hooters with a few orders of wings, tits, and ass, many "I'm sorry's", and a to-do list longer then the amount of hours I'd have to spend in therapy trying to figure out...
what is love really?

You see as the female that I am, like many other women, I was raised to believe the biggest lie, the biggest hoaxed of all time! I was told he would come for me...you know, the ONE and that everyone has one. I was told he would rescue me (even if I didn't need rescuing), and that everything from then on would be complete, like Happily Ever After.
But... ummm... when would you say that begins to kick in, huh?
How long after you have decided he is the One would you say you begin to live Happily Ever After, because somewhere between the shiny diamond ring and cleanup on aisle 6 , it seems to me like love is more of a business then anything else. I mean two people uniting for the greater good of Capitalism. You gotta love fairytales. The true question in all of this is:
If love is a business does it cover health insurance?

How much does love cost?

What exactly would you say is the price of love?

Does love cost change? Do we/should we change or alter ourselves for love? And if love costs change, do we get any change back?

Does love cost ignorance? Should we ignore some qualities in our significant other because atlest 50% of his/her qualities are worth aknowledging?

Does love cost money? How important is money in a relationship? Women say they don't care about the money, that they would rather flowers...but don't flowers cost money? Doesn't everything?

Does love cost affection? What if the one you love has a different way of displaying or accepting affection? Do you have to withold your affectionate ways to appease your partner? If so what does that really say about the "Love" in your relationship?

Does love cost friendships? What if the price of love were a friendship? Would you pay it? What if the friendship cost you the love? The dynamic of two people is something that happens naturally and is beautiful. How do you choose which dynamic is of worth bartering?

Does love cost a hobby, your personal time, your freedom? Ever notice how the more in love you feel the more the clock tics, as in you never have any time?

Does love cost?
Should love cost?
What is your budget for love?
When it comes to love, can you validate your expense report?

An Educated Man believes in Cinderella?

"An educated man" recently told me love does indeed exist.
I have been believing in love's existence but not as others do. To me, words and definitions are not the same or understood the same, so how can love be defined in Cinderella terms? However, he got me thinking. Could one male out of an entire population actually believe in romance? Are there more of him? Where did he come from? Does he understand that by believing in love (in Cinderella terms)and wanting it entirely, that he becomes like the Fountain of Youth to single women? In the sense that he (if discovered by others) becomes a rare breed of man and therefore would immediately become one of the most sought after males on this side of the planet. There are definitely not many men whom I know that would surrender to the thought of true love and yet he does, and willingly! He believes in love, he believes in "Happily Ever After," he even believes in the "I adore you!"
Can you believe it? They are not all androids.
So I have been explaining to my bruised heart that love is simply a business or an intense attraction but nothing lasts forever, then comes along this "Educated Man" and distracts my perception. Has he not gotten his heart broken? Have I been wrong?
The only thing left to do now is to keep him as my lab rat. I must study his theories in hopes of finding answers and yet all the while remembering that he is not for keeps because a man who loves in "Cinderella terms" is most likely already living in his own Happily Ever After.