Rather than playing at cat and mouse, lovers need to have the confidence and courage to rise above that game, and not just by getting married. By learning to trust each other, they can dare to see each other as the fully-fledged human beings that they truly are, ends-in-themselves rather than mere means-to-an-end. True love is about respecting, nurturing, and enabling, but how many people have the capacity and maturity for this kind of love?
