Making love out of nothing at all

Beautiful and lucid as put forth by Jim Steinman in Air Supply’s famous song:

‘I know the roads to riches, 

I know the ways to pain,

I know all the rules and then I know how to break them, 
And then I always know the name of the game’
But is it really that lucid? Can we really make love out of nothing at all?

it's never nothing

The ineffable
Love is defined by its ineffability: the lack of ability to explain what it really is. It’s an emotion that cannot and rather not be expressed because it’s a word which when given a meaning; undermines its own power and ability. It’s too great and too abstract to ever be adequately communicated, yet it is a constant endeavor of every artist, lyricist, filmmaker, writer and today even behavior scientists to fathom its depth and reach back to the surface with a new discovery, a novel innovation, a fresh creation and an original expression of its meaning.
But then, is it so difficult?
Although an abstract concept, love refers to a deep feeling of tenderly caring for another person. Even this limited conception encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to nonsexual emotional closeness of familial and platonic love to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships.
Out of Nothing? Or Something?
One may love a principle, a country, a dress, a pet, a food or a human being. Love encompasses positive feelings, warmth and a sensation of goodness for the giver, much more than the recipient. It’s a pretty simple understanding for someone in love because then no definition is needed at all. When one tries to analyze love, it gets more complicated. We look for reasons, explanations, justifications and rationalizations when we feel we are in love; just to satisfy ourselves and win the assurance to our quandary that ‘Am I really in love? Or does he or she really love me?’
The Biology of Love
Biological models view love as a mammalian drive, much like hunger or thirst. It divides the experience of love into three partly overlapping stages: lust, attraction, and attachment. Lust exposes people to others; romantic attraction encourages people to focus their energy on mating; and attachment involves tolerating the spouse (or indeed the child) long enough to rear a child into infancy. These are stages most relationships go through. There is no obvious completion of a particular stage. There is in fact a need to rebuild the lust, attraction as well as attachment to keep the relationship going.
The Psychology of Love
Psychology depicts love as an intellectual and social phenomenon with three different components: intimacy, commitment, and passion. Intimacy is a form in which two people share confidences and various details of their personal lives, and is usually shown in friendships and romantic love affairs. Commitment, on the other hand, is the expectation that the relationship is permanent. The last and most common form of love is sexual attraction and passion. Passionate love may be seen in infatuation as well as romantic love. All forms of love are viewed as varying combinations of these three components.
The Gestalt Principle: It never adds up!
The principle of Gestalt states that the whole is different from the sum of its parts. So do not look at the parts. They never add up. The mosaic is beautiful with every broken piece of glass adding to the beauty of the design.
So what is this ‘Nothing’?
Any explanation falls short when one is in love. Most of the romantic and passionate relationships cannot pen down the factors that made the couple fall in love with each other.

It was just the way she looked at me, it made me melt

It was simply the way he smiled

It was the way he supported my dreams, he simply cared

It has to be the lovely ‘parathas’ she cooked for me

It was the quiver in my stomach when I thought of her

Love changes for the better

At the same time, all these factors are seen and heard at the inception of any relationship. As it matures, the love grows and has more meaning and existence. Rather the love that was ‘made’ out of these nothings, now becomes a love that is rebuilt and thrived, and now seems to be made out of trust, faith, respect, tolerance, patience, one-mindedness, understanding and commitment. All these are abstract feelings and emotions which may amount to ‘nothing’ in today’s material world, yet they are the ‘everythings’ that keep relationships strong and bind people in love together.