Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Love is a serious mental disease.
I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment.
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
A lot of people fall in love because you're sharing your body with someone. And sometimes you get it twisted, and you think that that's real love.
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
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