Love And Its Fleeting Properties

There are many books, music, and movies that are all about finding true love. A large number songs today are about heartbreak, finding “the one”, and other concepts about love. This is the attitude of most young people nowadays. To many people, life is all about finding your “true love”. However, this philosophy has caused so much trouble in people’s love lives, because their views

Furthermore, where romantic attraction is a similar pull, but instead of a sexual desire it's more of a romantic feeling.  Such as looking at someone and thinking “I would like to have a romantic relationship with them” this can mean anything from cuddling to holding hands. “Attraction involves the brain pathways that control “reward” behavior.” (Katherine Wu)  The hypothalamus is a key portion of the brain’s reward pathway.  The hypothalamus produces dopamine which is released when one does things that feel good, including

In his article “Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain,” Benedict Carey expresses that love is not necessarily an emotion but rather a neurological and physical phenomenon. After comparing new love to mania and obsession, Carey offers evidence of romantic love as a neuropsychological event through the description of the caudate nucleus (a specific part of the brain which produces the neurotransmitter dopamine), explaining the cause of desire and passion in relation to love.

The human idea of love is quite possibly the most misunderstood in today’s society. Love can be between a man and woman, mother/father and their kids, or even really good friends. However, these relationships of love go through many interactions and stages to start and progress. Many psychological events must occur and be worked through in order to be successful. All relationships must endure the five perspectives of human behavior. These perspectives are biological, learning, social and cultural, cognitive, and psychodynamic influences.

Aristotle describes sleep, as if a person is in an altered state of mind he compares a sleeping person to a person who is overtaken by strong feelings toward a stimulus for example; a person who has a strong infatuation with someone may begin to think they see that person everywhere because they are so wrapped up by their feelings. This also made me think of when we humans fall in love all that we think of is our significant other.

The brain in love activates various regions that enable the person to think coherently, romantic love focusses all your mating energy and the start of this process with only a single individual. It just the “heart” that is involved that all does regions that lead the person to make decisions they would have not done or taken part of they weren’t all working together. I can attest that if the brain wasn’t involved I would have not done the many things I did when I had a crush with my friend.

Society has conditioned us to believe that love equates to romance. Western society has plagued love with the ideals of fairytales and romance. We all have seen and heard the cliché and trite sayings, “True love is once in a lifetime” or “Love is blinding”. As discussed in “Why You Will Marry The Wrong Person” author Alain de Botton asserts that society’s idea of love is impractical. He explains how marriage in the western world was once a marriage on convivence but is now since a marriage of feeling. This idea however, is challenged in the article “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This” where author, Mandy Len Catron claims that who you love is your choice. By highlighting the imperfections of love, de Botton makes the assertion that

“The most misinterpreted and misused word is the word, love. It is apparent that the theory and practices of some individuals and groups in our society today who use words, phrases and slogans of love do not convey its real meaning and are used out of context” (Love and its Misuse and Misinterpretation. (n.d.). Retrieved October 6, 2015). We love food, dogs, learning; but what is love according to relationships and what does love look like. Even though the undefinable emotion is commonly used throughout American culture as a simple expression it has more meaning. Everyone wants love, but no one is sure on what that looks like. A researcher named John Alan Lee developed six different love styles that people tend to fall into. In this paper I will discuss the six different love styles in relation to my “Love Style” Inventory, and “Are You a Good Listener” survey.

Written by one of the best writers in the modernist era in the 20th century, a great story by the name of ‘’Araby’’ emerges. This great short novel was written by James Joyce. In the story Araby, Joyce’s main focal point is the young man who portrays where he lives in North Dublin Street with his family who is his uncle and aunt in a household. The author reminisces the time when he used to run with his friends throughout ‘’the dark muddy lanes of the house to avoid his uncle or when Mangan’s sister came out on the doorstep to call her brother in to his tea’’ (Joyce 243). The young man is obsessed and deeply in love with the young girl, who’s her appearance was well-defined by the light from the door half way opened ‘’Her dress swung as she moved he body, and the soft rope of her hair tossed from side to side”(Joyce 243). The author also mentions about the previous house owner, a priest who passed away and left in the back-drawing room several books that he occasionally took a glance at. The young boy’s dominant personality trait is his determination. This results in disappointment and frustration as portrayed by James Joyce in Araby.

Friends, family, co-workers, have heard these words “True love is hard to find” and even a poem by A.C. Bradley echo the words: “True “Tis; better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” Friends will say these words and phrases to their dear friend whom is heart- broken to offer comfort and to express the empathy of what love’s bittersweet intangible imprint has caused. Regrettably, only a fortuitous miniscule number of the world population may boast the discovery of an all-encompassing type of love, upon initial encounter. Because some individuals allow the trials and tribulations of everyday life to distract them from Love’s potential, a staggering minute amount of marriages has endured through the decades. People vainly

Love is a beautiful word. Love is the first thing someone experiences when they start to develop a conscious. The mothers, the fathers, the brothers, or the sisters, are the first people that a normal child will show affection to. When growing up, everybody has that one thing in common. We are taught it from the first words, to say “I love you” or to ask somebody for love. However, when the child comes home from school, or when the teenager comes home from work and hears words such as “I do not love you anymore, we should get a divorce,” the whole perspective of the word love changes in that person. Those little things can completely change the outlook on life and love. Forming

Love addiction and substance dependence have similar characteristics, namely, the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine, the presence of tolerance and withdrawal symptoms, and the negative influences they have on a person’s life. Love addiction is similar to addictive drugs such as alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and heroin because of the effects that dopamine have on the addict’s mind and body. These effects then lead to a person’s experience of tolerance and withdrawal symptoms. Tolerance and withdrawal symptoms are very important in the maintenance of an addiction as they cause the person to crave and need more of the addictive

The major research area discussed in the selected article is the neurology of love specifically, the brain activity observed through functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques (fMRI) observed when study participants viewed images of their long-term spouses (Acevedo et al, 2011). This is part of a larger area of research that aims to define and measure the impact that feelings of love have on the brain and the neurological system, or perhaps the processes and activities in the brain that are causal of the feelings of romantic love. Research in this area has been undertaken from many different angles and with a variety of reliable and relevant findings, yet the actual knowledge of how love works in the brain remains fairly limited (Erwin, 1999; Emanuele et al, 2006). Studies of initial feelings f romantic love during early stages of attraction, dating, and among newlyweds is somewhat more extensive and the results verified in numerous studies, however long-term love is not nearly as well-researched and appears to be more complex, making it more difficult to state conclusions with any degree of certainty (Emanuele et al, 2006; Acevedo et al, 2011). Both for intrinsic reasons and because feelings of love are associated with mating behaviors, in humans as well as other species, this research areas is highly important (Fisher et al, 2006).

The film Love.Etc studies five New York couples and illustrates the diversity of their relationships, while also capturing the progress and tribulations of each individual journey. The film was made in 2010 and continues to be an example of love in today’s society. Focusing specifically on the elderly couple, Albert and Marion, their relationship is an example of the many aspects that make up the Family Systems theory. By observing their relationship from the film, Albert and Marion’s marriage provides the audience with the information to detect the characteristics of the following themes: relationship status, communication style, stressors and strengths

Love is a fragile dance. I am going to tell crucial key factor in my life. I was one of those children that was always singled out being my parents were divorced. When I was younger, having divorced parents was rare, however now a days it's rare to see parents still together. I’m not going to lie it definitely has been a struggle, but thankfully I always have a friend or family member I can talk to.