Another approach towards love..............

I get these newsletters from how stuff works. Actually I found stuff which are really intersting from that.

Anyways recently I saw the wierdest artical. "How Love Works" stuffs really interesting. Try this link

http://www.howstuffworks.com/love.htm

here's some interesting quotes from it.

• We are wired for romance in part because we are supposed to be loving parents who care diligently for our helpless babies.
• So in a sense, love really is a chemical addiction that occurs to keep us reproducing.
• Many researchers have speculated that we tend to go for members of the opposite sex who remind us of our parents
• There are three distinct types or stages of "love":
  1. Lust, or erotic passion
  2. Attraction, or romantic passion
  3. Attachment, or commitment
  When all three of these happen with the same person, you have a very strong bond. Sometimes, however, the one we lust after isn't the one we're actually in love with.
• Sexologist John Money draws the line between love and lust in this way: "Love exists above the belt, lust below. Love is lyrical. Lust is lewd."
• Pheromones, looks and our own learned predispositions for what we look for in a mate play an important role in whom we lust after, as well. Without lust, we might never find that special someone. But, while lust keeps us "looking around," it is our desire for romance that leads us to attraction.
• When attraction, or romantic passion, comes into play, we often lose our ability to think rationally -- at least when it comes to the object of our attraction.
• Psychologists at the University of Texas in Austin have come to the same conclusion. They found that idealization appears to keep people together and keep them happier in marriage.
• They discovered that people in love have lower levels of serotonin and also that neural circuits associated with the way we assess others are suppressed. These lower serotonin levels are the same as those found in people with obsessive-compulsive disorders, possibly explaining why those in love "obsess" about their partner.
• In romantic love, when two people have sex, oxytocin is released, which helps bond the relationship. ....... the hormone oxytocin has been shown to be "associated with the ability to maintain healthy interpersonal relationships and healthy psychological boundaries with other people." When it is released during orgasm, it begins creating an emotional bond -- the more sex, the greater the bond.
• the speed at which courtship progresses often determines the ultimate success of the relationship. What they found was that the longer the courtship, the stronger the long-term relationship.
• The feelings of passionate love, however, do lose their strength over time. Studies have shown that passionate love fades quickly and is nearly gone after two or three years. The chemicals responsible for "that lovin' feeling" (adrenaline, dopamine, norepinephrine, phenylethylamine, etc.) dwindle. Suddenly your lover has faults. Why has he or she changed, you may wonder. Actually, your partner probably hasn't changed at all; it's just that you're now able to see him or her rationally, rather than through the blinding hormones of infatuation and passionate love. At this stage, the relationship is either strong enough to endure, or the relationship ends.
• Only three percent of mammals (aside from the human species) form "family" relationships like we do. The prairie vole is one such animal. This vole mates for life and prefers spending time with its mate over spending time with any other voles. Voles even go to the extreme of avoiding voles of the opposite sex.

I shall give my comments on this artical after you do.............. well, as Gumz sayz "Clog it dude"