
Originally Posted by
Atomini;637***2
Cherrydrpepper,
I am very much the same way, not because I choose to be this way but I believe it is in my psychological make up to be unable to. I also attribute it to my massive shift in looking at things logically and rationally rather than emotionally. I have discovered I really am incapable of this thing called "love" that so many people speak of, which is actually nothing unique... "love" is just a label that emotional individuals have given to the cocktail of Dopamine, Oxytocin, and Serotonin (as well as various endorphins) that your body produces in particular ratios in response to a stimulus (kissing a girl/boy, talking with them, touching them, being infatuated with them, etc.). THAT IS ALL "LOVE" IS! It is an increase in various neurotransmitters that make you feel a certain euphoria when that stimulus is present (boyfriend/girlfriend).
Love is not something 'special', or is it something 'emotional' or 'spiritual' unless you want to bullshit yourself into believing that (which is what the majority of individuals are doing when they engage in "love" without understanding the proper biochemical and neurological causes for the feelings of "love". This is a FACT, because all I need to do is take an individual that claims they are in "love", throw them on a drug that inhibits the production of Oxytocin and Serotonin, as well as eliminates the reuptake of these neurotransmitters, and what you will have is this: an individual incapable of loving, feeling, or producing any euphoria in the presence of their 'love interest'.
There is your scientific answer as to what "love" is. It is just a collection of emotional feelings manifested by increases of various neurotransmitters in response to a combination of visual, auditory, tactile, and mental sensations.
But there you see how I mentioned I look at things logically instead of emotionally, and my explanation here is a great example of this.
As for myself, I realized that although in the past I did tell two individuals I loved them, upon looking back at it, it was not love in the sense that so many people believe it to be. Love is not permanent, it is not "the strongest thing out there that never dies", it is simply what I explained above. You can love 10 different people in life, and there is no difference. There is no "one true love" that people claim to eventually find. There is only that person that stimulates such an intense euphoric sensation (as the result of increased neurotransmitter and endorphin activity) that drives you to want to spend the rest of your life with them and do anything for them over anyone else. That person, is, essentially, a drug that you are addicted to.
I can immediately eliminate your "unbreakable love" by loading you up on a cocktail of SSRIs, sedatives, and neurotropics that will result in your being unable to: laugh, love, cry, or feel any emotions what so ever.
Want to know what a mother and her baby are in crude terminology? Two dope fiend addicts.