Wow, great answers, it is true, having children does wipe out selfishness, you do make total sacrifices for them.
Toodles loved your story, that is like breaking through the chains that bound you, coming out with love that just surrounds you, learning how to love is a very hard thing to do, it is also a very powerful and useful skill for survival, you seemed to have overcome.. love does radiate and it can get you through the toughest times in our lives.

Very true chillymellow, it is everywhere..
From doo-doo birds to viruses, from cavemen to hornless rhinos, snakes and ants that crawl, from bad things to the good, from oceans and skies that hold our kings, to the tiniest teardrop that holds a million prayers, the driest of deserts sands, to the sparkle in concrete, all plants and animals that fly or swim, the people we see and meet, babys smiles, cats and dogs that grin.. the air that we breathe and how our hearts beat.. you will find it!

Love is a grave mental disease.
-Plato

Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate.
- Sandra Dykes, comedian

Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

“Without love, we are birds with broken wings.”

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

-Morrie Schwartz