I guess you're right. No matter how caring and attentive we are, our love can never take the place of a special partner.

不论子女们有多体贴，照顾得有多周到，我们的爱永远无法取代一个老伴的位置。

We should recognize that romantic love, the idea of being deeply enamored of one special partner over a whole lifetime, is a very new, ambitious and really pretty odd concept, at best 250 years old.

我们应该认识到，浪漫爱情——一辈子都深深地迷恋着一个特别的伴侣，这是一个全新的、雄心勃勃的、非常奇怪的概念，最好一生能达到250岁。