Father Peter, a Roman Catholic priest from Freiburg in Baden, once gave me some good advice:

"Henning, love is lost the day you only produce songs whose lyrics you no longer have written by yourself."

Does that also mean that love is over when I no longer have enough money to produce high-quality songs (to release on music streaming platforms)? Such a song costs always thousands of Euros!

What is a song, anyway? What is a song lyric? What is poetry?

How can you tell that someone has lost their love?

Through love, at least two persons unite in a shared group consciousness. The basis of the union, the common ground, the shared beliefs and values that make up this consciousness can be communicated in a variety of ways, through all sorts of creations. These can be visuals, spoken and written language, certain food and drink, touches, mimics, gestures, et cetera.

This means that two people connected by love have at least one symbol in common that becomes increasingly more meaningful to them both (throughout the years), so that this symbol guides him and her and them together on their ways and also through their individual reasoning to the lyrics of their songs.

So two hearts are beating together in similar ways giving guidance to individual creations that are nonetheless connected and justify their love before the most universal God.

So it can be concluded that love has ended if at least one of them has nothing to say anymore, if they do not have sufficient freedom anymore. For the latter, of course, it requires a minimum of material wealth.