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Symptoms of Love : Part 2
The reasons behind these feelings are all chemical in nature, and they do tend to dissipate with time if you stay with said lover just because you do get used to them. However, what I’ve found is true is that an unrequited love, one that you were not with all that long but had intense feelings of attraction to, but never got to really know, you do tend to have those feelings around those people, usually because the relationship was never fully “consummated” with getting to know eachother or spending a lot of time together.
The euphoric feelings are most likely due to dopamine and norepinephrine and adrenaline, all of which create feelings of “rush” and excitement that are truly intoxicating. This is what young love is often like, and intense physical attraction to someone. It also probably has something to do with pheromones, and that deeper level of attraction that you have with someone where your bodies are just chemically meant to mate.
Norepinephrine is actually a stress hormone, but it releases when the stress is good or bad, and it does still also create an adrenaline rush that can be construed as good or bad. Have you ever had a person affect you that way? Where you feel both like you’re going to throw up but also exhilarated, where you feel like you could run a marathon at that moment. You become totally tongue tied and every semblance of your former rational, logical self disappears?
This is all intense physical, and maybe even emotional, attraction, at work. I’m sure you’ve all felt these feelings before, and they brought you some degree of not only pleasure, but also of excitement, that’s what love and attraction is all about, it’s amazing how powerful a drug love can be, isn’t it? It’s the reason so much time is devoted to talking about sex, improving sex, and devoting a lot of energy to it. We are, after all, extremely cognitive, sexual creatures, we humans!
