RE: Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?

Yes.

I think this is the easiest question you have asked since I have known you.

Yes! Every time. The fact that what ever relationship didn't work out to my satisfaction or theirs isn't even part of the equation. And YES. I still love them every one.

Now you have me thinking about how much poorer my life would have been for never loving. Almost immeasurably so. I can't even imagine my life without.

The pain is transitory, the love just goes on and on.

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Copied and pasted because I did not want to botch it by paraphrasing.

Thanks Petra. For such an easy hard question...