I love all the interpretations,and everything that has already been said of this card!
Pink and yellow roses have been interchangable for a while...and can stand for love or friendship.
There's a book I have on roses that says pink roses stand for Familiar love (like between parents and children,or between real close friends) rather than for romantic love.
The medium John Edwards uses the symbol of pink roses the same way.
I do have to add a story that happened when I taught a tarot class a few years ago....and it happened again with an individual student that I had as well...
We were discussing the symbolism in every card .The students wrote down what they saw in each card,and then we discussed it as a group.
And a great debate arrose in whether the costumes in the 2 of cups were enough to denote Male or Female...
We finally came to the conclusion that they were a little androgynous...that the dress could be a robe, and that what I had always considered to be the man...could very well be a woman!
When you use this card to refer to partnership, (rather than romance...) the figures do seem to become less gender specific!
I think there could be a duality...of traditional male and female energies(yin/yang...active/passive) but that the figures don't necessarily have to take on those traditional roles.
Not meaning to be controversial here...but I do like that idea!