[Saorin]

If we talk about a "realistical" approach to love, I think Umineko kinda missed it in my view. I won't talk about how you shouldn't misinterprete funny remarks like "I'll come and get you a white horse, kihihi" because we can easily wiggle our way out of here with "Yasu had such a hard life, she wanted to escape, Battler told her he would help her" etc etc
(Plus, they never even confessed their love for each other or even took any further steps, so it's not farfetched to at least PONDER whether the other person was even feeling as strongly as you do yourself)

But I think "love" is especially also about the bad things and events, horrible experiences (so to say two sides of the same coin) and coming to terms with that stuff even if it's hard to deal with - if you can't do that without using other people to fill "the hole", developing countless personas or going on a muderous rampage, then you probably aren't really up to it.