What is love? Love is a strong feeling of affection. Caring and affection are the characteristics of love not manipulation and compromising who we really are.
Below are 40 facts about true love that would make you fall in love again
1. When two lovers gaze at each other’s eyes, their heart rates synchronize.
2. Couples who are too similar to each other are not likely to last.
3. An attractive face is preferred over an attractive body for long-term relationships.
4. Looking into each other’s eyes can make strangers fall in love.
5. Men who kiss their wives in the morning live 5 years longer than those who don’t.
6. The tradition of the diamond engagement ring comes from Archduke Maximilian of Austria who in the 15th century gave a diamond ring to his fiancée, Mary of Burgundy.
7. Consciously trying to keep a new relationship secret heighten romantic feelings for each other.
8. When you look at the eyes of someone you love, your pupils dilate.
9. Scientists suggest that most people will fall in love approximately 7 times before marriage.
10. When you see someone you’re interested in, what feels like butterflies in your stomach is actually a stress response caused by adrenaline.
11. You’re most likely to fall in love with someone if you first meet them in a dangerous situation because danger like love causes a release of dopamine in the brain and activates common areas.
12. Love causes a drop in serotonin, which is a symptom of OCD causing you to be literally obsessed with your partner.
13. When you look at a new love, your brain suppresses the instinct to make critical social judgments.
14. Expressing gratitude towards people you love causes an immediate spike in your relationship.
15. Love can exert the same stress on your body as deep fear. You see the same physiological responses – pupil dilation, sweaty palms and increased heart rate.
16. Statistically, men are quicker than women to say “I love you” in relationships.
17. According to studies, men are more emotionally affected when relationships end.
18. One-in-five long-term relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others.
19. Falling in love can induce a calming effect on the body and mind and raises levels of nerve growth factor for about a year, which helps to restore the nervous system and improves the lover’s memory.
20. On average, a man will spend one year of his life staring at women.
21. People with high self-esteem have longer and more successful relationships.
22. Dilated pupils show your attraction to someone and makes you more attractive.
23. People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left.
24. Attachment + Caring + Intimacy = Perfect love
25. Holding a loved one’s hand relieves pain and stress.
26. Thinking of love and s*x influences creativity and concrete thinking respectively.
27. Cuddling releases natural painkillers.
28. Falling in love has neurological effects similar to those of cocaine.
29. Monogamous relationships exist throughout the animal kingdom.
30. The longer and more deliberate a courtship, the better the prospects for a long marriage. People who have intense Hollywood-type romances are more likely to divorce.
31. Men in love show more activity in the visual part of the brain while women in love show more activity in the part of the brain that governs memory.
32. Since ancient Greece, apple has been a symbol of love. The Celts believed that the apple represented love because it lasted so long after being picked.
33. People who are rejected by their sweethearts have strong activity in the brain associated with the insular cortex, the part of the brain that experiences physical pain.
34. Engagement rings are often worn on the fourth of the left hand because the ancient Greeks believed that the finger contains the Vena amoris or the vein of love that runs straight to the heart.
35. Getting dumped often leads to “frustration attraction” which causes an individual to love the one who dumped him or her even more.
36. Looking at a picture of a loved one relieves pain.
37. It only takes up to 4 minutes to decide whether you like someone or not.
38. On average, men around the world marry women who are three years younger than themselves.
39. Romantic love eventually ends only to be followed by committed love.
40. Love is all that matters.
Phil