John Grey, you wrote:

If you've never been in love don't even try writing about it.

Well, I wasn't planning to... The thing is, I have been in many loving relationships (friends, parents, pets, et alia) but I haven't done that thing that's typically called "Falling in love"...

I asked my dad what it was like when he and mother fell in love -- and he said "We didn't! We just sort of realized one day that we get along really well together, and we might as well get married."

So it might be a family thing. I never grew up with the "falling in love" expectation, so when my hormones started kicking in as a teenager, I didn't go looking for it.

I asked the organizer/editor if I could expand the subject to just "love", and she said I may if I absolutely must, but I didn't have to write about falling in love with a human.

I do, however, have a lot of experience with falling (physically), so I might use that as a starting point:

I know what it feels like to fall. I know what it feels like to love. But I've never experienced both together...

Or something.