Pictures Love Definition
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As described above, the 3 sides of the triangle are shortened or lengthened
according to the amount of each component present in the relationship. Biologically,
love is a powerful neurological condition like hunger or thirst, only more permanent.
We talk about love being blind or unconditional, in the sense that we have no
control over it. But then, that is not so surprising since love is basically
chemistry. While lust is a temporary passionate sexual desire involving the
increased release of chemicals such as testosterone and oestrogen, in true
love, or attachment and bonding, the brain can release a whole set of
chemicals: pheromones, dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, oxytocin and
vasopressin. However, from an evolutionary perspective, love can be viewed as a
survival tool – a mechanism we have evolved to promote long-term relationships,
mutual defence and parental support of children and to promote feelings of
safety and security.
Since love has been the topic of
countless articles, books, discussions, and sleepless nights, I might as well
explain how I got interested. I have long been addicted to popular songs,
especially love songs. They play in my head, usually uninvited, and often at
odd hours. Some of them show up from out of a dim past, so I am frequently
searching for lyrics to fill gaps in my memory.
Several years ago in the course of
looking for a lyric, perhaps the one quoted above, I happened upon an
extraordinary website called Lyrics World (now defunct). What was unusual about
this site was that it contained the Top Forty popular songs for the last 70
years (1930-2000), over ten thousand lyrics. As I began to read lyrics of love
songs at random, it seemed to me that the majority of them fell into only three
patterns: infatuation, requited love, and heartbreak. There were also romance
lyrics which didn’t fit, but in any given year, they were never in the
majority.
The
study I later did (Chapter 5) confirmed: about a quarter of all pop songs in
the Top 40, year after year, are about heartbreak, about a tenth, about
infatuation, and about a tenth, about requited love. Another fourth involves
miscellaneous kinds of romance, and a little more than a fourth are not about
love or romance.
But
in reading these lyrics, a new question arose. It seemed to me that none of
these three forms, often not even requited love, suggested genuine love.
However, in order to state this idea with confidence, I would have to find out,
at least to my own satisfaction, what I mean by genuine love. At least in
English, the one word covers so many different things as to be almost
meaningless. Of all the emotion words, I think that love may be the broadest
and the most vague and pliable. The pliability of this word results in many
problems, both in scholarship and in real life.
For
this reason I propose a concept of love that is
bio-social-psychological: genuine love, in its non-erotic form, has a physical
basis in attachment, and a social psychological basis in attunement
(shared awareness and identity).
Romantic love involves a second physical basis: (sexual) attraction.
Each of these forms in itself can involve very intense feelings. Combinations
of two or three forms can lead to overwhelming feelings. Non-erotic love is
intense because it conjoins attachment emotions and genuine pride. The added
experience of sexual desire in erotic love means a powerful confluence of three
feelings, each intense alone.
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