What is love?

[Slade]

Isn't it the lost 8th plague of Egypt?

I luv yoo guyz

[Tifa Valentine]

Depends on what type of love you're talking about....

[The Ceej]

Love is a chemical high in the body. A mixture of lust and infatuation causes the hormones to go crazy and gives you a chemical high. And like any chemical high, this one will die out in time. What you're left with after that is attachment. You've been with the person so long that you few comfortable with them. It really hurts and offends people who are in or have recently been in love when I tell them this, but it's been scientifically proven. No, I can't link you to it as I saw it in a documentary and not on the breeding ground of absolute truth that is the internet.

[Ramza Beoulve]

Love is a chemical high in the body. A mixture of lust and infatuation causes the hormones to go crazy and gives you a chemical high. And like any chemical high, this one will die out in time. What you're left with after that is attachment. You've been with the person so long that you feel comfortable with them. It really hurts and offends people who are in or have recently been in love when I tell them this, but it's been scientifically proven. No, I can't link you to it as I saw it in a documentary and not on the breeding ground of absolute truth is the internet.

Fixed

Anyways, I'm in love and I'm not offended. If love is that for you, it's ok. Everyone has his own definition .

[Mirage]

That's the scientific definition of it, whatever you feel about love is just subjective, and it's just what these chemical reactions make you do or think :p.

Love is a chemical cocktail developed to make us stay together with our mates long enough to reproduce, and then raise the offspring. And in my experience, it is one of the best chemical cocktails around <3.

[Anaisa]

Love is a chemical high in the body. A mixture of lust and infatuation causes the hormones to go crazy and gives you a chemical high. And like any chemical high, this one will die out in time. What you're left with after that is attachment. You've been with the person so long that you few comfortable with them. It really hurts and offends people who are in or have recently been in love when I tell them this, but it's been scientifically proven. No, I can't link you to it as I saw it in a documentary and not on the breeding ground of absolute truth that is the internet.

Love isn't a chemical high in the body. Love causes the chemical high. The chemical high is a reaction to love, not what love actually is.

[Bunny]

Love is a battlefield.

[daggertrepe]

Love is through the heart and soul.

Science is all a buncha...well, you know.

[Mirage]

Love is a chemical high in the body. A mixture of lust and infatuation causes the hormones to go crazy and gives you a chemical high. And like any chemical high, this one will die out in time. What you're left with after that is attachment. You've been with the person so long that you few comfortable with them. It really hurts and offends people who are in or have recently been in love when I tell them this, but it's been scientifically proven. No, I can't link you to it as I saw it in a documentary and not on the breeding ground of absolute truth that is the internet.

Love isn't a chemical high in the body. Love causes the chemical high. The chemical high is a reaction to love, not what love actually is.

The chemical high is caused by hormones released when you're physically attracted to someone. The feeling we get from those various chemicals is what we experience as "being in love". After a while, other chemicals take the place of those initially released, making a feeling of attachment and/or dependence.

[Yamaneko]

I like explaining it like that too because it pisses the delusional kids off.

[Anaisa]

Love is a chemical high in the body. A mixture of lust and infatuation causes the hormones to go crazy and gives you a chemical high. And like any chemical high, this one will die out in time. What you're left with after that is attachment. You've been with the person so long that you few comfortable with them. It really hurts and offends people who are in or have recently been in love when I tell them this, but it's been scientifically proven. No, I can't link you to it as I saw it in a documentary and not on the breeding ground of absolute truth that is the internet.

Love isn't a chemical high in the body. Love causes the chemical high. The chemical high is a reaction to love, not what love actually is.

The chemical high is caused by hormones released when you're physically attracted to someone. The feeling we get from those various chemicals is what we experience as "being in love". After a while, other chemicals take the place of those initially released, making a feeling of attachment and/or dependence.

Physical attraction an love aren't the same thing. You can be physically attracted to somebody an not love them. An as for attachment an dependance, that chemical reaction musn't be working very well, because the great majority of humans have multiple partners.

[Araciel]

could that be why people are sometimes said to be 'on the rebound' when they break up and are open to affection? that is to say do you think they're still dependent on the feeling but not the person?

[Mirage]

Attachment and dependence is only important for as long as it takes to reproduce, and a few more years of raising the kid :p, after that, it wouldn't matter too much if it started to fade, evolutionary speaking :p. Also, the attachment part is more distinct in females than males. Regardless, humans are far less polygamous than the vast majority of species on this planet. I think only 3% of the species on earth are known to mate for life, and most of them have that attachment formula in them. It's hard for me to go into the specifics of it, because it was a documentary on National Geographic, not somewhere on the internet. I'll download it as soon as I find it though, and then I'll be able to give a few more details.

I didn't mean to say that physical attraction is the same as love. What I meant is that the chemicals released when we are physically attracted to someone, can eventually trigger the chemicals that make us feel "in love". The wonderful feeling you get when you're head over heels in love with someone are actually huge releases of dopamine in your brain.

[Anaisa]

Attachment and dependence is only important for as long as it takes to reproduce, and a few more years of raising the kid , after that, it wouldn't matter too much if it started to fade, evolutionary speaking . Also, the attachment part is more distinct in females than males.

I know of plenty of couples that split up before they've had children together. I know of plenty of couples that have split up before they've had children together an it was the woman who dumped the man. I know of plenty of couples that split up before the children are even close to being old enough to leave home an fend for themselves, an I know of a few couples that have stayed together for a long time, an can't have children. Whoever came up with that theory, didn't think it through!

[Mirage]

Oh, but I know plenty of people who do stay together. And for a far longer period of time than just about every other animal on the planet. Anyway, sometimes the chemistry between two persons just doesn't match :p. Some people are simply not compatible.