Love

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What is it?
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What is it used for?
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When you’re swooning over your new love interest, wearing a perma-grin as cartoon-like hearts float all around you, you positively glow. There’s a reason: Love looks good on you. When you’re falling madly in love, your brain releases dopamine as well as other chemicals that give you energy and focus.

Your energy skyrockets, you’re curious, optimistic, motivated and focused. And this affects your entire body language: you smile, swish your hair, stand taller and your voice goes up—all ...

You make my Dopamine,
Serotonin, Endorphin and
Oxytocin levels go silly.

THE SCIENCE IN LOVE

Getting struck by Cupid's arrow may very well take your breath away and make your heart go pitter-patter. Psychologists have shown it takes between 90 seconds and 4 minutes to decide if you like someone. Falling in love causes our body to release a flood of feel-good chemicals that trigger specific physical reactions. This internal elixir of love is responsible ...

11:11 make a wish! I’m sure you remember this saying, and maybe you still say it today. It is the only time of the day (using the 12 hour clock) that all the numbers on the clock are the same. Where does this saying come from? Should you even bother to make a wish? What makes this time so important and what is the significance of 11:11?

Why are so many of us seeing this right now. Is it a biological thing where our bodies get in the habit of looking at a clock during this time? If ...

You fall in love with them as a person for their personality that you just haven't considered their appearance, how they look or act. -G

Yes, it is possible. Just as possible as falling in love with anyone else that you met anywhere else. Love is time-consuming, exhausting, dangerous, often expensive, and usually counter-productive.

Some say "love is blind", but how many times have you pursued someone only because you thought they were beautiful or handsome? ...

If you are starting to have tighter shirts and hard-to-button pants, take it as a good sign. Because according to science, the best way to tell if a couple is happily in love is by looking at their waistlines.

A new study from the Research on the National Center for Biotechnology Information says that if a couple is satisfied with their relationship, they tend to gain weight. Yes, looks like those flabs on your bod are called love handles for a reason.

For the study, ...

We all have a past, even that beautiful woman who you want to date or are dating. A past is what makes up who we are now. Mistakes are made so that we can learn what we want, what we don't want, and who we want to be. If you are judging a woman's past, then you are not going to be happy in your relationship – at all.

“Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.” ~Sri Chinmoy

Judging A Woman’s Past ...