What is love based on?

[Herr Abubu]

That's possible because any women considers success of her man as her own success. She is capable of taking part of the credit as her own and feel perfectly comfortable about it. But for that to work the woman have to believe in man sincerely, irrationally, blindly. And man have to be worth all that, dedicate himself to the goal as much as his woman dedicates herself to him.

The reversed situation is impossible. Men are wired to succeed themselves. No matter how high his woman on the social ladder and how much effort he put into her achievements he will always feel unsettled at the very least. Every man needs his own success. It could be little but still have to be his own.

The truth is many women today aren't capable of true love, agape, because they are taught to be selfish and to value only pleasure.

[Antimage]

It must be based on the limbic system which regulates emotions. There are three receptor systems that deal with positive emotions, pleasure, mood, and affection: serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin. If you take tyrosine supplements you will experience more pleasure. If you are interested in substances that can change your mood, you can ask me.

lol

[Ülev]

[Amor Vincit Omnia]

Testosterone attaches to androgen receptors in the brain and controls libido. Pheromones also play a part, these are scents that a person's skin has, these are chemical messengers that signal who is attractive to you. Examples of pheromones include Adrostenone and Androsterone, both are testosterone derivatives, and affect the VNO organ in our noses. This is an ancient trait we inherited from more primitive mammals.

this is a technical explanation about how it work
but what make start this process ?

an example .

a man die because a cardiac attack and a doctor explay what happened to his heart and so why he died .
but the process could be activated because someone point on his head a colt 45 and he got very scared .
so he died because he got shocking scared or because the cardiac? attack ...the two things are complementary i think , linked togheter !

in other words if you ask your girlfriend why she in love with you ....i don't think she could say what you wrote down here :-p:-p even if it is what technically happened in her brain

[Petros Agapetos]

"Falling in love causes our body to release a flood of feel-good chemicals that trigger specific physical reactions," said Pat Mumby, PhD, co-director of the Loyola Sexual Wellness Clinic and professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM). "This internal elixir of love is responsible for making our cheeks flush, our palms sweat and our hearts race."

Levels of these substances, which include dopamine, adrenaline and norepinephrine, increase when two people fall in love. Dopamine creates feelings of euphoria while adrenaline and norepinephrine are responsible for the pitter-patter of the heart, restlessness and overall preoccupation that go along with experiencing love.

MRI scans indicate that love lights up the pleasure center of the brain. When we fall in love, blood flow increases in this area, which is the same part of the brain implicated in obsessive-compulsive behaviors.

"Love lowers serotonin levels, which is common in people with obsessive-compulsive disorders," said Mary Lynn, DO, co-director of the Loyola Sexual Wellness Clinic and assistant professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, SSOM. "This may explain why we concentrate on little other than our partner during the early stages of a relationship."

[Petros Agapetos]

There are three phases of love, which include lust, attraction and attachment. Lust is a hormone-driven phase where we experience desire. Blood flow to the pleasure center of the brain happens during the attraction phase, when we feel an overwhelming fixation with our partner. This behavior fades during the attachment phase, when the body develops a tolerance to the pleasure stimulants. Endorphins and hormones vasopressin and oxytocin also flood the body at this point creating an overall sense of well-being and security that is conducive to a lasting relationship.

[Amor Vincit Omnia]

There are three phases of love, which include lust, attraction and attachment. Lust is a hormone-driven phase where we experience desire. Blood flow to the pleasure center of the brain happens during the attraction phase, when we feel an overwhelming fixation with our partner. This behavior fades during the attachment phase, when the body develops a tolerance to the pleasure stimulants. Endorphins and hormones vasopressin and oxytocin also flood the body at this point creating an overall sense of well-being and security that is conducive to a lasting relationship.

very interesting , but why we direct our love to some kind of person with some features instead others ?
another example :
60 years ago in africa fat women where considerated attractive .
nowaday as the starndard beauty changed because media pressure also in african countries the beauty standard is similar the one in usa and europe .
we can see this when there is miss universe contest where women of any part of the world show similar features ...health , weight ecc .
only in rural african area we can see resist still the old beauty standards .
we cannot say brain of african people 60 years ago worked different than brain of people nowaday
what changed ? the media pressure changed
So ....what we like depend of time and cultural circustance , then what happen in our brain is what you explained ....they are two different process .
one is biologic , neurobiologic and another is cultural and psychological ( and the last two change with time )

[Mortimer]

The truth is many women today aren't capable of true love, agape, because they are taught to be selfish and to value only pleasure.

bro, males too.

[Rumata]

Acording to the Platon theory of Soulmates, this is what happen :
[I]
"In his dialogue The Symposium, Plato has Aristophanes present a story about soulmates.

Of course, it's a beautiful story. But it seems to me that some people are naturally more capable to love than others. Or else those less capable just suppress love in themselves. I'm not sure.

The truth is many women today aren't capable of true love, agape, because they are taught to be selfish and to value only pleasure.

So selfishness damages the ability to love? Interesting...

[Neon Knight]

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing

- Blaise Pascal