"Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance... Love lasts forever!"

That's 1 Corinthians 13:7-8. We read the "love chapter" (1 Corinthians 13) at youth group last night, and when reading this verse, I thought of an interesting question:

If this is the true definition of love, and love is supposed to never give up, never lose faith, endure through anything, and last forever, is there such a word as "loved"? Loved is love in the past tense, meaning at one point you did love something, but now you don't. You have lost your love for it. My thought was, if true love lasts forever, were you truly in love with something if you now say you "loved" it?

Now, I don't mean like, "Hey, how was dinner?" "I loved it". I mean "I loved so-and-so... but not anymore". I guess this applies to people rather than things. I see lots of people throwing the word "love" around too easily nowadays, especially when dating, for instance. People break up and then say "Yea, I loved them." Does the past tense form of the word love mean that you no longer love them? Did your love fail? Were you really in love? Was your love the true love the Bible talks about? It's an awkward situation to think about, and very hard to explain. When you think of the word "loved", what comes to mind?

Thoughts?