love-fragility inequality

better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all??

Romance might be the most wonderful experience in life. also the most precarious. Is the precariousness worse than the wonderfulness is good? Kahneman and Tversky and Thaler and Gilovich tell us that we're more risk-averse than benefit-embracing. The epigraph above must be a fiction. 

It's hard to measure such extreme emotions, but if it's true, as is widely reported, that losing a job is worse than losing a loved one, then maybe romance is an exception to behavioral psychology's "losing is twice as bad as gain is good". So "better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" is a good gamble, since there are worse things than losing in romance, but nothing better than loving.