What is the true meaning of love and being in love?

Being in love is Infatuation that someone experiences for another person after it becomes a sense of security which is often built by trust, comfortability, and excitement.

True love is the sense of security one preserves from their object of desire. their target offers the individual a range of emotions that the person feels they require, be it hope, happiness, courage, etc.

Unfortunately these feelings do not always last long, then becomes a sense of familiarity, comfortability and routine.

Meaning of love has many interpretations. From my understanding love is about being true to oneself. If this is the emotion of the highest purity then how can it not make us be free, liberated, safe about being ourselves? Love is paradoxical. It is dependent on the people involved but surely it should make us feel better about ourselves and be able to discover out depths. We are limitless... to such magnitude that we need a companion to discover what is within... love should do that. Rather than being adaptive, compromising, accommodating, forgiving etc which in any case a good human would do for each other (in some cases) should we not expect 'love' to free us from all these boundaries? If this is a transcendental emotion, then I would imagine it would break the shackles than impose more of its own.