An ego tensile manifestation of the magnified singular physical want regarding the self which incorporates both shared and hidden emotions along with a self singular glaring determination which invokes a dissemination of the self for another, for no other sane reason except fear.
Therefore the need for love from another is the clarifying of fear to the self.
Quoting: Garmr The need for love from another is a sign of
flourish, not a result of fear.
Quoting: pi So Pi your stating that the 'need' for 'love' is a way for a being to prosper or grow.
Forget 'prosper'....too easy.......lets go with grow.
So a being can become 'more'....bigger through 'love'.
Ok, so a being can 'give' love, a being can receive love, a being can feel love, a being can induce love, a being can refuse love.......on and on....can a being be in fear of love.
Yes of course.
Loved to death, he/she loved too much, I loved doing it although it was dangerous/wrong/not allowed.......etc.
Without going on more, love is a way to grow you state....so each living thing of any description within this place 'grows' by using another awareness for its own personal gain.......it will do this so as not to feel less (in other words not grow), therefore it loves in fear of losing that love, whether freely given or taken.
Love as you have been informed of it here would seem to be a strong parasite which controls the weak through fear of losing that which the weak has been instructed to need.
That would be love itself.