Why We Love

Romantic love is linked with the natural stimulant dopamine and perhaps norepinephrine and serotonin.

feelings of male-female attachment are produced primarily by the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin.

Romantic love is deeply entwined with two other mating drives: lust—the craving for sexual gratification; and attachment—the feelings of calm, security, and union with a long-term partner.

Lust is associated primarily with the hormone testosterone in both men and women

Through too much loving … So terribly do my thoughts torment me.

Chaucer was right: “Love is blynd.”

Some even adore their beloved for their faults

rose-colored glasses,

He began to adore the hairs; a hundred thousand times he touched them to his eyes, his mouth, his forehead, and his cheeks

in my survey remembered trivial things that their beloved said and did