Why?

I don't get love. I don't think that anybody really does, for that matter. Why do we put ourselves out there agaian and again, only to get hurt? After the first time, why don't we just quit, and spend the rest of our lives floating in our careers, or some other fields in our lives?
I guess that's why Ben and Jerry's is doing so well. Have you ever noticed that when you break up with someone, especially someone whose been in your life for years, and/or made an imprint on your life, you feel like complete crap, and walk around like a zombie for days on end? Is that healthy, because every woman on the face on the planet does it? I don't get it why we go back for more, when we could just live on and do more porductive things.
Like all things, love has one goal. Eternal happiness. To be happy with somone, and not to be lonely. To be able to say, that no matter what, you have someone there to make you feel better when you feel sad, when you feel like you want to express your love to them, you express it in the way that you know best.
But what if you get that love from someone else? Friends. Family. Your puppy. The list goes on and on. A relationship, it seems nowadays, is the only key thing to find love, when really it is all around you. I guess we should stop searching for this special thing that we all crave, and just start floating, because to ride with the current always leads us to dry land whenever your lost.
I guess maybe all of us, myself included, need to sit back, relax, and just float.