What Do You Get When You Fall In Love?

liALL you get is lies and pain and sorrow; to paraphrase the immortal Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
One of the interesting facets of travelling around Europe and meeting an absolute truckload of people is that there are times when you get to see them at their most human, their most vunerable.
Sometimes this is when something bad has happened - like when a passport goes missing - although the majority of the time it's when someone is around a member of the opposite sex they quite fancy.
Gone may be the devil-may-care attitude that normally applies, replaced with a bumbling attitude that often causes the object of their affections to forget what it was that was attractive about them in the first place. Likewise, two shy people may begin to really open up after meeting each other: a match made in heaven so to speak. Seeing someones face light up when they talk about their absent other half is something everyone should be made to watch when they're feeling blue (unless it's because of a break-up of course. Then it's penguin videos!).
What really gets my back up though are people cheating or generally being dishonest.
I have to say this partially comes from the bitter personal experience of seeing a marriage close to me disintegrate because one person couldn't stay faithful for whatever reason, while I've seen many another person almost in tears because someone they had feelings showed blatant disregard for them.
No matter what the problems are in a relationship*, it seems cowardly to just write it off without concern for the other party. If they're making an effort to patch things up, the other person needs to be honest and call time face-to-face.
Too many people begin agreeing with Bacharach and David's lyrics at the start of this post otherwise.

*Yes Cagey, I'm aware of the fact that me giving relationship advice is like asking George W. Bush for help in an IQ test...