Is love a real thing?

I’ve never been ‘in love’ to the best of my knowledge.. I love my boyfriend in the sense that I would sacrifice to help him or see him happy, but I don’t feel like its that romantic love, or im hesitant to call it that anyways. Every time one of my friends goes through a breakup my friend Kori will comfort them by saying “Love is just a chemical in your brain, its not a real thing and you’ll get over it”. That makes me kind of sad because I feel like if I were to ever love my boyfriend I would want it to mean more than that, and I know he loves me, or at least he believes that he does, but if its all just a trick to make us reproduce, whats the point?