Why wouldn't we expect Pope Benedict to be a man of love

On Sunday, my local paper printed an AP article that I found very dissapointing.

Talking about Pope Benedict being a man of contradiction. "The man described as the 'Dour Bavarian' wrote his first encyclical on love"

The article goes on to say,
"In his first year as Pope Benedict has confounded left and right through a handful of small yet significant changes that defy interpretation. He is very much his own unpredictable man.
Take for example that first encyclical, 'God is Love' and exploration of love and charity that focused on the different types of love - erotic and unconditional - that Benedict said were joined in marriage between man and woman."

To summarize "Deus Caritas Est" in such a way trivializes the main focus of it. Erotic love was only a portion of the encyclical. It was about all the various forms of love, which in English are all lumped together.

Pope Benedict of a man of great love. He grew up in a loving, a tight knit family. In his memoirs, he writes about the pain of leaving home for the seminary. Throughout his life, he has kept his family close to him. When he was a theology professor his parents to lived with him. He also writes about sitting at his parents bedsides as they died. Even now, he has given his brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, an apartment in the apostolic palace.
How can anyone doubt that Pope Benedict is a man of love.