love is nothing but a quantifiable biochemical reaction involving evolved responses particularly for social animals.
its primarily controlled by the hormone testosterone
there are 3 forms of this thing we define as "love"
lust, romance and attachment
lust is an evolutionarily designed cognition that gets a social creature in the mode of "looking for a potential mate"
romance is an evolutionarily designed cognition and enduring chemical response that is designed to make a social animal focus all their mating energy on one idividual at a time (selectivity)
attachment (the last phase) is evolutionarily designed behavior/emotional response (driven by endorphins, dopamine and serotonin (also known as the "pleasure principle").. the purpose of attachment in social animals is to ensure the survival of the resultant offspring by way of possession of more than one parental figure during crucial years of child rearing
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