"If you're looking for the word that means caring for someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything thay want no matter how much it destroys you, it's love. And when you love someone, you just don't stop. Ever. Even if people roll their eyes and call you crazy, even then, especially then! You just don't give up, because if I could give up, if I could just take the whole world's advice and move on and find someone else, that wouldn't be love! That would be... that would be some other disposable thing that is not worth fighting for!"
--Ted Mosby, "How I met your mother"