People believe that love can overcome everything

Our knowledge of the physiology of romantic love suggests that the more primitive regions of the brain involved in reward and pleasure are involved in love. This is not surprising. Even if love seems to be a sophisticated subject that is subject to all forms of art, philosophy and science today, it is probably something that has been around since homo sapiens existed and serves the continuation of the species."

So let's start with "WHAT IS LOVE?"

Love has been described by many famous people throughout history as a kind of mental illness with short-lived but intense symptoms.

Plato said that love is a serious mental illness. Freud, on the other hand, stated that it is a condition in which a normal person becomes psychotic.

"Despite these remarkable definitions that love is not a normal condition, love seems to be a physiological condition with psychological, sociological and biological aspects rather than a disease."

It is a very strong feeling of admiration, fascination and extreme fondness; it is loving at the level of passion and devotion.

The difference from ordinary love is that one cannot control one's own emotions (Fisher 1998).

When people fall in love, all their feelings, thoughts and behaviors change.

In the intense feelings and thoughts that love brings, people believe that love will overcome everything, they think that they have found the one true love of their lives and that it will never end.

Where do all these feelings and thoughts come from and how come they sometimes end and sometimes change shape?

People have been thinking about love for thousands of years and discussing the answers to these questions in art and philosophy.

However, especially in recent times, what love is and what it does has become an important area of interest for science as well.

WHY DO WE FALL IN LOVE?

Love ensures the continuity of life (more scientifically speaking, of the species).

DARWIN defined two types of sexual selection (Darwin, 1871).

In intrasexual selection, traits evolved in individuals of the same sex are used in competition for mating opportunities.

In between-sex selection, individuals of one sex evolve traits that the opposite sex prefers and these are used in mate selection.

Helen Fisher (1998) proposed that a special brain system that evolved for "courtship" (romantic love in humans) also plays a role in mate choice.

Fisher proposed that this neural network has evolved to allow individuals to find potential mates with less courtship time and energy.

The courtship system that evolved in humans is the physiological basis of romantic love.

As will be explained in more detail later in this article, the attachment phase of love in humans plays a role in the longevity of the relationship.

Therefore, we can say that the function of love is to establish a union between opposite sexes and to ensure that this union lasts long enough for children to be raised.

They say that external beauty is not important, it is the beauty of the soul that counts, but this is certainly not true for love.

Love is often triggered by a visual stimulus. Although the cliché of love at first sight is not quite true, looks are a very important factor in the onset of love.

But besides visual appreciation, odor also seems to be important.

In animals, odors play an important role in sexual arousal.

But apart from odor, it is also necessary to mention pheromones, a group of odor-like substances.

Pheromones are odor-like chemical substances that regulate social relations between members of the same species, cause unconscious behavioral changes in other members of the same species when secreted in one organism, and direct the organism to various actions.

They are detected by a receptor on the inside of the nose, known as the "vomeronasal organ", and transmitted to the hypothalamus.

Human pheromones mostly control sexual behavior, with estrogen-like compounds increasing blood flow in the male hypothalamus and testosterone-like compounds increasing blood flow in the female hypothalamus.

Pheromones are thought to be as individualized as fingerprints and are of great importance in influencing the other person (Gupta 2002, Cutler et al. 1998).

This selectivity in pheromones may explain why a person feels attracted to one person in particular and not to everyone else.

Appearance and pheromones are largely determined by genetic factors, and there is evidence that people are more attracted to people who are somewhat genetically similar to them, but not too similar (McClintosk 1998).

Social and environmental factors and past experiences are among the factors that determine who we are attracted to and fall in love with.

What the other person has experienced in previous relationships affects liking.

We use all this data and decide in our brains whether the person we meet will be suitable for us or not.