Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that. It must be magic.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.