Devourer of love

I've always heard when growing up that love conquers all. In my own life experiences, I find that love doesn't conquer all, lust seems to conquer all. Once lust creeps into someone's thoughts and into the depths of their soul it corrupts love. Lust causes them to choose lust over common sense, family, relationships, morality, and love. Lust makes you delve deeper into it's darkness and it lures many with it's sweet enticements. Loving relationships no longer become about loving each other or love being expressed through sexual contact because now that sacred bond the two shared has been replaced by lustful desires outside of the relationship. If someone chooses that over love there is nothing anyone can do. The question you'd have to ask yourself is this, if you're in a relationship with someone engaging in it, would you want to be second fiddle, after all they’ve clearly made their choice? The trade-off to giving into lustful desires, is your love for others diminishes and being loved by another is blocked-off. This seems a high price to pay for a few moments of empty pleasure. It's a sad choice they make because in the end they are left empty, lonely and the pain they try to hide with those actions are still there at the end of it all. If you ask me, this seems to be a perpetual cruelty to oneself and a perpetual vicious cycle that they chose to engage in.