The Psychology of Falling in Love
What Happens to Us When We Fall in Love?
Falling in love is often a dream come true, one that proves to be an undeniably powerful and life-altering experience that changes us forever, and when this miracle happens, it changes us both inside and out, mentally and physically. We become radically different people, something that both our worldviews and outward behaviors display with a flagrant intensity. This love is quite often fleeting, leaving us sobered and sometimes even feeling cheated, when that beautiful rush of emotions subsides, the storm calms, and we return to our well-ordered lives.
The science of our modern world has a lot to say about falling in love, as we now understand the physiological and biological processes which are involved when we fall in love. Did you know that your body responds to falling in love in the exact same way that it fends off an intruding virus? Did you know that dramatic changes take place on the genetic level when we fall in love, something that’s entirely outside of our control?
Both of these statements are true, a subject I’ve covered at length here in a story titled How Falling in Love Physically Changes Our Genes.
But there are other things that happen to our bodies when we fall in love, that magical phase that, if we don’t use it cautiously…
