I'd say I was truly "in love" for certain once, a girl that absolutely refused to let the phrase even be muttered. The longer we spent togeather, the closer we became. She even started telling me she loved me, which she told me at the outset she would never do. Then she blew an older friend of mine and needless to say that all came crashing down.

After, emotions hold less influence on me. And I never use love as a throwaway phrase