"I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love"
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The subtext is practical, even slightly corrective: happiness isn’t a permanent state your partner delivers, and love isn’t a maintenance plan. When she says “there’s a lot more,” she’s smuggling in the invisible architecture of long-term partnership: shared values, conflict tolerance, emotional labor, logistics, money talk, boredom management, and the quiet discipline of showing up when the high has faded. It’s advice disguised as realism, a public-facing inoculation against the cultural lie that commitment should feel like a highlight reel.
Context matters because it’s coming from an actress who’s navigated an industry built on fantasy and optics. For public couples, “love” is also branding; it’s what audiences are sold and what tabloids weaponize when things get messy. Gellar’s insistence on “more than just love” reads as a boundary: our relationship isn’t a fairy tale you can audit for narrative coherence. It’s a partnership, with routines and negotiations you don’t get to romanticize away.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Gellar, Sarah Michelle. (2026, January 15). I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-its-a-mistake-if-people-just-fall-in-love-161604/
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Gellar, Sarah Michelle. "I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-its-a-mistake-if-people-just-fall-in-love-161604/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-its-a-mistake-if-people-just-fall-in-love-161604/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.







