Well this is how I see it... I think it's easier to not want love "as bad" if you have no experience..

It's like.. if you're super hungry - and all around you are people eating, you have to watch people eating on TV... and then if your friend is right in front of you eating your favorite food right there in front of you.. and he gives you a bite.. which in turns makes you even hungrier and want it even more, after you had that small taste - you're craving it even more than if your friend would have just kept going on and never gaven you the taste..

That's how I think it is with people who have had love, but lost it for whatever reason.. we're more hungry for it than those who have never had it, cause we KNOW what it's like, and we long for those feelings and comforts again, where the people who never had it, don't really know what they're missing, so to speak..

While I agree it's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.. I think it explains the POV of some of the people and the clashing opinions people have on this forum on the subject.