ego or love

Is it ego or love which needs to be satisfied the most?
I want to say love, but my ego would just not allow me... Then I wanted to say ego, but then the merciless love pokes my heart real hard.

Why am I in love? is it just to satisfy my ego that I am capable of loving or being loved...
Is my ego leading me, to love and to be loved? Then isn't the ego, love for self and love, a means to satisfy ego.

Oh my dear earthlings, beware of these things; fool is he who proclaims ego dies when you are in love; love dies, ego doesn't.