All they have is desire and infatuation.
A useful way is to read Shakespeare's sonnets, especially his satire on the convention of love poems,No. 130, to understand why the extravagant language used by two people to each other is actually stupid and funny:
My hostess's eyes are not like the sun;
Coral is redder than her lips;
If the snow is white, why is her * * * dim?
If the hair is wires, black wires will grow on her head.
I have seen red and white brocade roses,
But I didn't see a rose like me on her cheek;
In some perfumes,
It smells better than my mistress.
I like listening to her, but I know it very well.
Music has a more pleasant sound;
I admit that I have never seen the goddess leave;
My hostess stepped on the ground when she was walking.
However, dear, I think my love is rare.
Just like any wrong comparison she believes.
The key word is "wrong comparison". Their "love"-actually lust-is a "sign of death", because in the political climate of Verona, their infatuation cannot develop into what Shakespeare called "sincere marriage" in another sonnet.
It is wrong to think that Romeo and Juliet is The Romantic Period's or later works. They are not the main characters in young werther. In Shakespeare's time, the romantic concept of "true love" did not exist. In fact, this is a political game, and it is clearly pointed out in the preface:
Both families have the same dignity,
In beautiful Verona, we rest here,
From the rupture of old resentment to new rebellion,
Secular blood defiles secular hands.
From the fatal waist of these two enemies
A pair of star-studded lovers took their lives;
Whose misfortune was tragically overthrown?
Their death covered up their parents' dispute.
The terrible disappearance of their dead love,
Their parents' anger continues.
Nothing can be erased except the ending of their children,
Now it's two hours of traffic on our stage;
If you listen patiently,
What will be missed here, we will try our best to make up.
Because of the death of two young people-sentenced to commit suicide in hell, two families can reconcile their feud. Like many plays in Shakespeare's works, it is ultimately a place about maintaining an orderly society. The play is not about their love, but about their death.