Patrick’s love for Alice

Hiya Mrs. Reynolds-Naylor!
I was wondering did Patrick mean it every single time he told Alice he loved her? Is she the only woman he loves with all his heart (Besides their daughter) Was she the first girl/woman he ever loved?

Hmm.  What’s with all the worried questions about whether Patrick loves Alice enough?  Does he have to donate two quarts of his own blood or something?  Yes, yes, yes, he loves her with his whole heart and he means it every time he says it.  But it may not have been the first woman he ever loved.  There are a zillion women in the world and he’s only been interested in a half dozen or so in his whole lifetime.  You can be truly in love with someone and yet decide that for many reasons, you would not be a good lifetime pair:  religion, age difference, goals in life, distance between you in miles, politics, personalities, etc.  There might just be one or several big topics between you that are extremely important to what you stand for or what you love that makes you think there would always be a huge separation between you, so you sadly part.  But that didn’t happen to Patrick and Alice.