When you are in love
1. Your beloved is special and you have no eyes for anybody 6. You regularly exhibit signs o
else. There is a single-mindedness which is the result of the relationship, including pos
elevated levels of central dopamine, the chemical involved rejection, as well as separation
in focus.
7. You seek ways to develop
2. Your focus accentuate your beloved’s positive qualities dream about “together foreve
and trivial events and objects reminds you of them. In other
words “She/He’s perfect”. The focused attention is a result 8. You tend to feel the other p
a spike in central norepinephrine the chemical associated will sacrifice anything for that
with increased memory.
9. There is a marked tenden
3. There is emotional and physiological instability that You priorities shift, your style
also sets in when one is in love. The following fluctuating change, habits and values adju
emotions are experienced when you are in love: exhilaration,
euphoria, increased energy, sleeplessness, and loss of 10. You develop sexual desir
appetite, trembling, a racing heart and accelerated breathing, coupled with possessivenes
as well as anxiety, panic and feelings of despair when your This possessiveness is thoug
relationship suffers even the smallest setback. Drug addicts an in-love person will coerce
have similar mood swings. According to Dr Fisher when in- temptation, insuring that the r
love people are shown pictures of their loved ones, it fires until conception has occurred
up the same regions of the brain that activate when a drug
addict takes a hit. Being in love, researchers say, is a form 11. The scientists have determ
of addiction.
sexual union is important, the
takes precedence. 64 percent
4. Overcoming something traumatic or a challenge disagreed with the statement
intensifies the romantic relationship. Research shows that part of my relationship with [m
when a reward is delayed, dopamine-producing neurons in
the mid-brain region become more productive.
12. Fisher and her colleagues
report being “in love” com
5. You spend more than 85 percent of their waking hours involuntary and uncontrollabl
musing over their loved one. It presents as intrusive
and obsessive thinking. This state of affairs is a result
from decreased levels of central serotonin in the brain.
(Obsessive-compulsive disorder is treated with serotoninreuptake inhibitors.)