IS THERE SUCH A THING AS TRUE LOVE BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE? THE KIND THAT IS UNCONDITIONAL, EVERLASTING, CONSUMING? FAITHFUL LOVE? NOT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT BEING CHEATED ON LOVE? UNTIL THE DAY THE TWO DIE?
IS THERE SUCH A THING AS TRUE LOVE BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE? THE KIND THAT IS UNCONDITIONAL, EVERLASTING, CONSUMING? FAITHFUL LOVE? NOT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT BEING CHEATED ON LOVE? UNTIL THE DAY THE TWO DIE?
Yes I believe so, I think its rare though, unfortunately.
I most definitely think there is- perhaps I’m one of the fortunate few who has found it.
Between my lover and I it seems there is no situation we can’t handle. I sit amazed by the way it has been challenged- there are no words for it. It can only be described as “beautiful”.
Love is a neurotoxic reaction. Although it can be replenished through…exactly what we do not know, we do know it often wears off.
Ultimately no more than an evolutionary process favorable to reproduction
[b]May 31, 2005. 01:00 AM
Madly in love: Not just a myth
Scientists track activity in brain
New romance likened to craving
BENEDICT CAREY
THE NEW YORK TIMES[/b]
New love can look for all the world like mental illness, a blend of mania, dementia and obsession that cuts people off from friends and family and prompts out-of-character behaviour — compulsive phone calling, serenades, yelling from rooftops — that could almost be mistaken for psychosis.
Now for the first time, neuroscientists have produced brain scan images of this fevered activity, before it settles into the wine and roses phase of romance or routines of long-term commitment.
In an analysis of the images appearing in today’s Journal of Neurophysiology, researchers in New York and New Jersey argue romantic love is a biological urge distinct from sexual arousal. It is closer in its neural profile to drives like hunger, thirst or drug craving, the researchers assert, than to emotional states like excitement or affection. As a relationship deepens, the brain scans suggest, the neural activity associated with romantic love alters slightly, and in some cases primes areas deep in the primitive brain that are involved in long-term attachment.
The research helps explain why love produces such disparate emotions, from euphoria to anger to anxiety, and why it seems to become even more intense when it’s withdrawn. In a separate, ongoing experiment, the researchers are analyzing brain images from people whose lovers rejected them.
In the study, a computer-generated map of particularly active regions showed passion-related areas, hot spots deep in the brain below conscious awareness, in areas called the caudate nucleus and the ventral tegmental area. These areas are dense with cells that produce or receive a brain chemical called dopamine, which circulates actively when people desire or anticipate a reward.
The intoxication of new love mellows with time, of course, and brain scan findings reflect some evidence of this change, said study co-author Dr. Helen Fisher, of Rutgers University.
Ahh, we can always count on science to dull the romance 
True love is the most beautiful kind… We are standing in our own way, if only we could see that and stop looking outside of ourselves for it.
True love is our very being, for us to realise it we need the other person.
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those infected with eternal love should not play tennis…
-Imp
“When we love, it is not necessary to understand what is happening on the outside, because everything happens inside us instead.”
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- How ‘deuce’ he do it…?Love - something that begins in a chaos of energy - destroying your peace of mind… And with time settles down to a comfortable life-sustaining hum.
Then the kids come along and everything goes tits-up again.
HELL(O) F(R)IEND(S)
For you to know what love is I would have to show you:
http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=1651528#1651528
I read a Mario Puzo book that said that love was an idea that women have tricked men into believing that women must have when in reality women don’t want love. I think the book was Fool’s Die… but I read it so long ago.
Sometimes, when I’m pissed at the wife, I think to myself that Puzo’s character was right.
[size=200]OKAY,
SO IF TRUE LOVE ExISTS, DOES IT REALLY LAST?
DOES IT EVENTUALLY DIE OUT OR FADE AWAY?
OR IS IT POSSIBLE FOR IT TO LAST FOREVER AND EVER, WITHOUT THE PARTNERS WORRYING THAT THEY MUST DO SOMETHING TO KEEP IT ALIVE?[/size]
Of course it lasts. It simply changes as we change. Nothing stays the same. True love deepens - and remains. Love in the end is all we have.
Worrying about whether our partner cheats on us or not… is neurotic. If we are worried about such things, we are missing something.
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mind blowing love is hard to find, but it’d really lighten life up once found, the price of it is as just heavy - it can take you all the way down
i pity those who neglect such a treasure, in the face of danger or in the illusion of nihilism