Does love happen due to chemical reactions?
Love is due to the release of chemicals in the brain called neurotransmitters. When these are released we feel happy and get the feeling of love. We then associate this feeling with that person. The reason why they are released in the first place is because your brain believes that person to be a suitable mating partner (love between family members is a different type). There is no way to stop this without stopping other brain activities and it is possible to fall out of love if we associate something bad enough to counter the effect of the happiness when we see this person.
The feelings due to love are due to chemical reactions and hormones, but once you are in love, that does not matter to you, because you feel something for that particular person that transcends biology and chemistry. It’s not due to a chemical reaction that you’d gladly give your life for such a person, for example. Love is one of the most complex emotional responses in humans and animals, and scientists are still baffled by the causes and many of the effects. So far, science has not explained why people fall in love with a particular person, or why someone stays in love with them. It may be argued that similarities and similar interests play a part; however, I had never met the man I fell in love with before, and it literally was love at first sight, yet I knew nothing about him. Stopping such feelings is very hard, because the feeling tends to go so deep. You can fall out of love, but because of the good feelings you usually have, it can act like an addiction: you don’t want to lose
They say that love requires good chemistry. It is also said that a person can glance at another person and in seconds know whether the person is attractive to them. Likely that is an ancient instinct that tells whether the person would make a good mate and have healthy children, a survival instinct. When someone is suddenly dumped they may go through an agony that is chemical in nature. Pleasure and pain cause the release of different brain chemicals and the mental pain can seem very real. They also say that time heals all wounds and that should be true for mental pain of losing a love. Finding someone even more attractive would help shorten the time required to return to normal or to fall in love again. Attractive need not include only beautiful or handsome but can include shared values and aspirations and common likes such as the same music. Physical attraction may only draw two people together to discover if there is more to it than merely physical attraction which can be very short
