Everyone wants to know what true love is and many people think that they can feel it whenever they fall in love, but can love really be experienced and felt? Do they experience a true love or do they just experience lust, a fleeting feeling, lust or delusion? After all, is true love something that can really happen, or is it just a fabrication of our minds?
To recognize true love, we must understand the concept of love. Love means a strong emotional feeling towards someone else and a feeling of love for someone whom you describe as excellent and lovable according to your standards, thoughts, judgments and experiences. When someone is mentally, physically and morally attractive to you, love also becomes a biological process and affects your body. It strengthens your mind and you know that this person gives you a wonderful feeling.
People's physical reactions to love are a neurological reaction. And we experience this feeling when we are tied to something or someone else. When we become interested in and dependent on someone else, our brain releases chemicals such as serotonin, oxytocin, vasopressin, dopamine and norepinephrine. All of these chemicals make us think of romantic thoughts and physical feelings that are related to love. These hormones include:
Serotonin: This hormone increases your joy and happiness. In fact, taking medications such as ecstasy can greatly increase serotonin levels, which can be dangerous. However, if you fall in love with someone, it still happens that it is a healthier way to increase your happiness.
Oxytocin: This hormone is released during courtship and sex and helps you become dependent on someone else.
Vasopressin: In addition to oxytocin, experts believe that this hormone also causes a feeling of dependence and love for someone else.
Dopamine: This hormone is responsible for desire and reward, which means that when you do romantic things like love, physical contact, romantic appointments and everything that makes you happy, you will receive your reward with great pleasure.
Norepinephrine: This hormone is released when you fall in love or have the stress of doing things right. In fact, when you are in love, you experience physical feelings such as palm sweat or palpitations.
In other words, hormones regulate our behavior when we fall in love and make love. Doesn't the fact that romantic feelings are a hormonal process that makes love not work as well as we think? Not! The feeling of love is a powerful emotion that has many benefits. It helps us maintain relationships, do good deeds for others, do good deeds for ourselves, protect others, feel a sense of belonging and security in life. Without feeling love, we experience feelings such as fear, loneliness, and selfishness.