Practicality in 'Love'

Being practical is a cold thing and sometimes even fraught with not having principles. Love, on the other hand, is the most warm, mushy thing. They don't ideally have anything to do with each other. Alas, so is not the case - the problem is that love cannot survive in a vacuum. It needs to coexist with this world and the world runs on practicality and so love needs to come to terms with practicality to survive. Now it is very much given that for people to be together love should be the reason. But then there are other reasons by way of need that bring people together without any love. Also, it prevents all people in love from being together - money, status, religion etc there are too many factors. So the question is what is the correct mix of being practical and being guided by love. I would say be greedy - want both, don't settle for one. Love should be the only reason for being with someone but then again other factors are important to the survival of love in the long run. So there should be a minimum cut-off level that you should expect in all matters practical and materialistic. So probably a girl going with a guy with love but no career whatsoever is as unlucky as a girl going with a guy with all the riches to offer but no love. The hopeless romantic that I am, I always believe that you can get both, just wait your turn and be patient.