The Chemistry of Love

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Last but not least, attachment is the predominant factor in long-term relationships. While lust and attraction are pretty much exclusive to romantic entanglements, attachment mediates friendships, parent-infant bonding, social cordiality, and many other intimacies as well. The two primary hormones here appear to be oxytocin and vasopressin (Figure 1). As the word itself shows us, here we have an element that shares a lot of similarities with amphetamines. And combined with dopamine and serotonin, it makes the perfect recipe for a love straight from the movies.

The feelings of exhilaration and stimulation that accompany love – like butterflies in the stomach or a rapid heartbeat – are caused by the release of norepinephrine. But this neurotransmitter also causes some of love’s unpleasant feelings: it’s often hard to fall and stay asleep when we’re in love, and many of us also experience a loss of appetite – both of which are caused by norepinephrine. This happens when both neurotransmitters start to intensify our bonds. In this way, they energize us to enter a more rewarding phase where we can strengthen our relationship. You guys know how much I love strong female characters, and Elizabeth Zott is all that and more. She's fearless in the face of adversity, she stays true to herself, and she never lets others intimidate her into being less than all she can be. In other words, she is my hero.

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Further reading on spiritualism, neuroscience, psychology, alternative and secret history of humankind will help me greatly to understand some of the forbidden and censured facts about our DNA/mind and the evolution of our physical, emotional, mindful, intuitive and spiritual body. The noradrenaline system has just over 1,500 neurons on each side of the brain. It’s not much, but when they activate, they “go wild,” to put it one way. They cause an overwhelming feeling of joy, liveliness, and enormous jitters. They even deactivate our feeling of hunger or ability to fall asleep. I don’t think anything I can say will do this book justice. I love it from beginning to end and it will most certainly be in my top five reads of 2021.

A few weeks later, I discovered it's being made into a TV series, starring Brie Larson. See imdb here. I was led to this book after watching Helen Fisher’s 2006 TED talk entitled “Why we love, why we cheat.” Both the talk and the book are largely based on Fisher’s study, begun in 1996, of students at SUNY Stony Brook campus, in which the brain activities of two groups of volunteers were scanned in an MRI. One group reported to be deeply in love, while the other had recently experienced painful breakups. As one would expect, the book contains more details about the study, not provided in the TED talk, as well as additional facts and ideas.Patriarchy, pencils in the hair (see cover art of some editions), sexual assault, rowing (boats, not arguments), a kindergarten family-tree project, and the corrupting power of money all feature prominently.

But Mad thinks her mother is unhappy, and her homework to create a family tree pushes her to search for more information about her father's past. She has no idea that her search will uncover many long-kept secrets. That definitely doesn’t mean that oxytocin and serotonin weren’t there in the first phase, because they were. But these two come into play a bit farther along. The chemistry of love is real, and there’s one basic reason that’s true. Every emotion is triggered by a specific neurotransmitter. There’s a chemical component the brain will release with the right set of stimuli and more or less conscious factors.this was a buddy read with Marialyce and another book to throw on top of the 2022 disappointing reads category. Newly unemployed, Anna puts on her only dress (a Lord of the Rings cosplay outfit) to attend the company party and declare her love for Craig --- only to discover that he is using the party as an opportunity to announce his engagement to another woman. Bereft, Anna retreats to the bathroom to cry but accidentally wanders into the men's room. The man who offers her a shoulder to cry on is none other than Marco, the CEO of her (former) company…and Craig's half-brother. It's not just Elizabeth who warms my heart. This story has the most wonderful collection of supporting characters. They add so much color and spirit to the whole thing. I wanted to hug them all. And if you're an animal lover of any sort, just be ready to have your heart burst into a million ooey gooey pieces. In fact, Six-Thirty might just be my favorite literary dog of all time.