Romeo and Juliet, were they really in love? This essay details the romance between the two.

love 1 : strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties 2 : affection and tenderness felt by lovers infatuate 1 : to cause to be foolish : deprive of sound judgment 2 : to inspire with a foolish or extravagant love or admiration Dinner and a movie, the discussion on the car-ride home, and the seemingly endless kiss goodnight - this is the typical "date" for teenagers these days. The couple probably thinks they are serendipitously in love, when in …

…the poison he bought from the apothecary to commit suicide. Juliet finally wakes, only to see Paris and her dear Romeo dead. She grabs a dagger and kills herself. Romeo and Juliet clearly committed suicide, not because they were in love, but rather, because they were desperate- to escape their troubled families and lives. Their actions definitively proved that they were not in love, but rather, they were trying to seek refuge in one another.