Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.
Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.
When you love somebody, it's like in a couple - you want to create something. Sometimes, it's a baby.
Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
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.