This can only mean that they fell out of romantic love and didn't understand that now is the time for a true understanding of love to begin.
It's a general understanding of love".
The classical understanding of love, expressed in the Platonic concept of eros, was opposed in the Christian community by the biblical understanding of love, agape.
Michelangelo and Tracey Emin share a spiritual understanding of love, it seems.
This transformation is evident in the New Testament departure from the Hellenistic understanding of love.
His scholarship was both profound and wide-ranging, from Plato's understanding of love to Nietzsche and the reception of classical antiquity in the modern world.
Today courtly love is practical shorthand for an understanding of love that, according to some scholars, came into being during the Middle Ages and that constituted a revolution in thought and feeling, the effects of which resonated throughout Western culture.
It certainly says something about former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani's understanding of love that he – after one annulment and a post-affair divorce – believes the purest expression of love is one that doesn't recognize the flaws in its object.
Just as the artist-priest spirit of Flaubert anchored the dazzle of "Flaubert's Parrot," so does Gillian's deeper understanding of love's importuning keep the various confiding testimonies from becoming a "he said, she said" farrago.
Not only for the plight of the characters but for the whole superb conception, its understanding of love and regret and fate, and its warm sympathy for the frailty of human nature.
Their understanding of love, and what it takes to maintain a successful relationship, has changed over the years: they are now more willing to compromise, and are more forgiving of each other's foibles.
