"love is sometimes messy and less-than-valiant on the best of days, even between adults."
-are you kidding? especially between adults.
That is why child-love is so wonderful -i.e. we can leave out all the crappy adult behaviour and act like children, instead.
This notion also ties in directly into why nons oppose our sexuality.
They ascribe their messy sexuality to our (or, at least, my) way of doing things.