The type of person, who, if you ask for a FF recommendation, points you to a series that has two female characters appearing in the 4th series that spent some time together because they are "totally shippable".
Perhaps it's our way to coup with a sense of eternal loneliness we always feel?
Perhaps seeing others, both in reality and in our own mind, in love, is the way for us to fill such emptiness.
Perhaps all of this, directly or indirectly, is, for us.