What We Talk about When We Talk about Love is written from the view of a husband, named Nick, who is married to his second wife Laura as they are at a get together with their friends Mel and Terri who are married as well. While drinking gin they speak on the subject to as what love is. Terri explains the former man she lived with said that he loved her but tried to murder her. She said that he acted crazy but there was still love despite the fact that he tried to hurt her. Nevertheless Mel made his opinion known to the group that was not love. I have to agree with Mel since Love is not beating the one you love into submission. I think real love is laying all aspects of life down for someone else. However, both Terri and Mel further explain how her ex-boyfriend stalked Mel and even called Mel at work to threaten him. Mel further explains that he had to eventually get a gun in order to protect himself. However Terri's ex-boyfriend eventually committed suicide but went into a comma for three days and then died. Terri was with him when he passed away since he had no one else in the world. I think if I had been in a predicament such as this I would have done the same thing as Mel. But I do think it was right of Terri to have visited her ex-boyfriend in the hospital since she did at one point love him. As the story goes on Mel states while quite drunk, that while at work he had to deal with an old couple in their mid seventies. They had been hit by a drunk driver and both had terrible and possibly fatal injuries. Despite this they both recovered but while recovering they had to wear a full body cast. The husband loved his wife so much that he became depressed since he could not turn his head to look at his wife. I think that this was real love since any man who despite a deadly tragedy, still wants to see his wife and becomes depressed because he can't see her, shows how much he is concerned for her well being and that to me is love. Nevertheless I am unable to make a solid conclusion on how the ending of the story was. It ends as the gin runs out and the room get dark. The story does not explain to as whether or not they end up going to a restaurant they wanted to eat at earlier in the story. Nevertheless to me the story just ends with a cliff hanger so as to make the reader assume what happens next.