What defines love????

Of course, you can.
The love for a child releases Oxytocin is a hormone produced by the hypothalamus and secreted by the pituitary gland. ... When the baby sucks at the mother's breast, oxytocin secretion causes the milk to release so the baby can feed. At the same time, oxytocin is released into the brain to stimulate further oxytocin production.

I do wonder if it is possible to truly love two partners at the same time.

 

Love is subjective qualia as well. It's an experience as much as anything else. And one can assume that all experiences exist within a framework of time. But even Einstein insisted that our perspective of linear time is merely an illusion. A true perspective of time we innately lack. So what is a chemical experience of time in a block universe? It's a mystery.....

 

Have you ever been romantically in love?

 

You're thinking too simply, Candy. Too within the box.

 

Simple things please simple minds, whilst bigger fools watch on.

 

I've been romantically infatuated, but I don't know about "in love." I think love is broader than this.

I think you're missing the point. I'm willing to accept that chemicals in my brain make me feel in love; I'm not willing to accept that what these chemicals are has been adequately defined. I'm not willing to accept that the entire experience has been adequately defined. Because it simply hasn't.

 

I totally agree scientists do want to prove how and why though.
The search continues.
I must find an experiment on that, I watched it years ago.
Fascinating stuff.

 

Oxytocin is simply a name for a chemical composed of matter that is fundamentally not understood by science. And you can never have a complete description of the finer things without a complete and total perspective of the whole thing. And my position is that we're just not capable of grasping the entire picture with our five senses that exist within three dimensions. There is more that we can't perceive than we can perceive about this universe... Time, which we have an inkling of, should be especially curious to our minds.

 

I know they do, but they shouldn't. Science should only concern itself with function. Any two year-old can prove that they can't explain "why." Once you get a little older, you realize they can't even totally explain how.

 

No, we cannot fully explain.
But fundamentally, not only myself but many are curious, that is why I asked, what defines love, we all have differing opinions.
Nothing is black and white.

 

Love is many shades of gray...

 

More than 50 shades of grey

 

I think many people could answer this question many different ways. Personally I have always felt that I had enough love for Two...

My wife and I had a girlfriend for a while. It was a lot of fun, for all of us, but eventually our mistress moved on. For a long time we talked about "If the right girl found her way to us, we could make the trouple work." Though as we get older anyone who joined us would be missing so much of our lives.




For me, Love is my Chelsea. I often can't put the feeling into words. I look at her and I feel "Yes." I feel "Protect."

I look at her and I feel the full Moon shining down on me, guiding me in the darkness. I see the unimaginable beauty of the stars on a moonless night, with the aurora dancing through them...

I see the light of my life. The stars of my existence.


And I can't get enough.

 

Aww so true.

 

Aww, that is perfect.

 

Two kinds of love. One, you have strong feelings for specific person or people and can hate others for certain reasons. The one who is specifically at the top of your list can easily make you jealous and react to the point of hurting someone or even the person you love for doing that to you.

The other love is you love every person on earth equally. The one you most frequent or live with or married to is your best friend until one of you outgrows the other. Then you simply walk away. Impossible to get jealous or hurt. The only way to become like this is to know yourself and be complete within yourself. The end.

 

I am a little confused about the first????? Hurt????

 

News flash: a man caught his wife cheating with another man and shot them both to death out of jealousy. That kind of hurt.

 

Oh yes. Thanks for clarifying, I was thinking about you. pHEWW

 

I should of also said while I see love in largely neurochemical terms, that I do believe in different kinds of loving relationships which I believe is the crux of why this issue often leads to such confusion.