Everyone has an opinion about love, one way or another. For some, the effect of love lasts a lifetime, for others, the lifespan of love cannot exceed 3 months. Sometimes we have felt the pain of love, and sometimes we have felt how beautiful love is. So why do the effects and duration of love, which is the indispensable subject of poems and songs, vary from person to person?
Although research on love has not been reached for many years, many chemicals related to love have been detected. Although thinking about this idea undermines the romantic feeling of love, as Helen Fisher said, when we fall in love, our brain works like a natural drug factory and begins to secrete dopamine, serotonin and noradrenaline, which make us happy. Even though this idea does not seem very appealing to us, it has been proven that love has a chemistry.
Thanks to the dopamine secreted during love, a person feels good and happy next to the person he is in love with, but he does not look for a logical reason, he just says, "I am good next to you." Thanks to nature, we instinctively find some people closer to us and say that we get an electricity from them. Dopamine is the hormone that gives rise to the thought that I am receiving electricity from you. The second most powerful effect of dopamine is that it activates the brain reward system. With the dopamine secretion, it is as if our eyes do not see anyone else but him, the most beautiful/handsome person in the world is standing in front of us.
Noradrenaline, the other hormone whose production increases in the person in love, is the one that makes us excited, if even the dream of the person we are in love with makes our heart beat and our hands sweat. Your noradrenaline level is at its maximum level. Noradrenaline is responsible for making us experience the emotions we feel more intensely and intensely. We can say that if it were not for this hormone, the excitement of love would not exist.
The other hormone that allows us to experience our emotions intensely is the hormone called phenylethylamine. As a result of the combination of this hormone with other love hormones, we begin to experience a passionate romantic love.
So, do you think the attraction in the first stage of love is sufficient? If we don't strengthen this initial attraction, the initial excitement may fade away. Our hormones that increase the attraction of love and cause us to hug tightly are serotonin and oxytocin.
Oxytocin is almost the opposite. It causes us to feel one with the other party and makes two people feel as if they are one person. It is the hormone that makes us feel as if we cannot live without it and that a part of us will disappear.
As you all know, we owe our happiness to serotonin. Even though its initial effect is not very severe, it is the hormone that makes us happy as long as we are in love. Serotonin reduces our anxiety, allowing us to develop a secure attachment to the relationship and feel happy.
Of course, love is too sacred an emotion to be reduced to that simple, who knows what findings we will encounter in the coming years. Until then, I wish you all days full of dopamine, serotonin, noradrenaline, phenylethylamine and oxytocin.
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