Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.
... it's a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.
You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.