Can love really last for a life time?

CAN LOVE REALLY LAST FOR A LIFE TIME?


Scientist found out that romantic love involves chemical changes in the brain that last 12-18 mos.after that you and your partner are on your own.Love can absolutely last for a life time as desire to be maintain....

as the facts are stated more on theory, but can anybody define the reason behind love...there are many reasons why human beings love each other,reason that is absolutely unique to each and every one of us...as long as we hold on to that reason...as long as we feel the same way like we did when we found who our true love is..yes i concur love can last for a lifetime...

thanks for sharing your ideas taytay daryo.true love will last forever.

" True love last for a lifetime. never fade in our hearts sometimes no matter how hard it is we have to fight for it. Tue love knows no reason; knows no lies; defies all reasons; love has no eyes. But love is not blind; love sees but doesn't mind.
Glitter Text @ Glitterfy.comNothing lasts forever except the word "FOREVER" but forever is not enough.

night.-.hawk22_force wrote:" True love last for a lifetime. never fade in our hearts sometimes no matter how hard it is we have to fight for it. Tue love knows no reason; knows no lies; defies all reasons; love has no eyes. But love is not blind; love sees but doesn't mind.
Glitter Text @ Glitterfy.comNothing lasts forever except the word "FOREVER" but forever is not enough.

if both your choice bottom line;it will last,if you know how to commit.

if love is real,then it would truly last forever,believe me

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.

hondyx014_force wrote:Scientist found out that romantic love involves chemical changes in the brain that last 12-18 mos.after that you and your partner are on your own.Love can absolutely last for a life time as desire to be maintain..

This might contradict or reinforce that scientist's findings

The 3 stages of love

Helen Fisher of Rutgers University in the States has proposed 3 stages of love – lust, attraction and attachment. Each stage might be driven by different hormones and chemicals.

Stage 1: Lust

This is the first stage of love and is driven by the sex hormones testosterone and oestrogen – in both men and women.

Stage 2: Attraction

This is the amazing time when you are truly love-struck and can think of little else. Scientists think that three main neurotransmitters are involved in this stage; adrenaline, dopamine and serotonin.

Adrenaline

The initial stages of falling for someone activates your stress response, increasing your blood levels of adrenalin and cortisol. This has the charming effect that when you unexpectedly bump into your new love, you start to sweat, your heart races and your mouth goes dry.

Dopamine

Helen Fisher asked newly ‘love struck’ couples to have their brains examined and discovered they have high levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine. This chemical stimulates ‘desire and reward’ by triggering an intense rush of pleasure. It has the same effect on the brain as taking cocaine!

Fisher suggests “couples often show the signs of surging dopamine: increased energy, less need for sleep or food, focused attention and exquisite delight in smallest details of this novel relationship” .

Serotonin

And finally, serotonin. One of love's most important chemicals that may explain why when you’re falling in love, your new lover keeps popping into your thoughts.

Does love change the way you think?
A landmark experiment in Pisa, Italy showed that early love (the attraction phase) really changes the way you think.

Dr Donatella Marazziti, a psychiatrist at the University of Pisa advertised for twenty couples who'd been madly in love for less than six months. She wanted to see if the brain mechanisms that cause you to constantly think about your lover, were related to the brain mechanisms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

By analysing blood samples from the lovers, Dr Marazitti discovered that serotonin levels of new lovers were equivalent to the low serotonin levels of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder patients.

Love needs to be blind

Newly smitten lovers often idealise their partner, magnifying their virtues and explaining away their flaws says Ellen Berscheid, a leading researcher on the psychology of love.

New couples also exalt the relationship itself. “It's very common to think they have a relationship that's closer and more special than anyone else's”. Psychologists think we need this rose-tinted view. It makes us want to stay together to enter the next stage of love – attachment.

Stage 3: Attachment

Attachment is the bond that keeps couples together long enough for them to have and raise children. Scientists think there might be two major hormones involved in this feeling of attachment; oxytocin and vasopressin.

Oxytocin - The cuddle hormone

Oxytocin is a powerful hormone released by men and women during o r g asm.

It probably deepens the feelings of attachment and makes couples feel much closer to one another after they have had sex. The theory goes that the more sex a couple has, the deeper their bond becomes.

Oxytocin also seems to help cement the strong bond between mum and baby and is released during childbirth. It is also responsible for a mum’s breast automatically releasing milk at the mere sight or sound of her young baby.

Diane Witt, assistant professor of psychology from New York has showed that if you block the natural release of oxytocin in sheep and rats, they reject their own young.

Conversely, injecting oxytocin into female rats who’ve never had sex, caused them to fawn over another female’s young, nuzzling the pups and protecting them as if they were their own.

Vasopressin
Vasopressin is another important hormone in the long-term commitment stage and is released after sex.

Vasopressin (also called anti-diuretic hormone) works with your kidneys to control thirst. Its potential role in long-term relationships was discovered when scientists looked at the prairie vole.

Prairie voles indulge in far more sex than is strictly necessary for the purposes of reproduction. They also – like humans - form fairly stable pair-bonds.

When male prairie voles were given a drug that suppresses the effect of vasopressin, the bond with their partner deteriorated immediately as they lost their devotion and failed to protect their partner from new suitors.

Sources: http://www.youramazingbrain.org.uk/lovesex/sciencelove.htm

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It is not DESTINY that determines LOVE,it is CHOICE.
Relationship last long not because they are destined to last long,relationship last long because two people made a choice,to keep it,to fight for it and to work for it.Other relationship fail not because they're destined to fail,they failed because one of the two,or both,made the choice,to set each of the other FREE.....

if two people are really in love
they will never let go of each
other even w/o commitment

Love is a precious thing
It is a feeling that
makes your heart sing.

Whether you are far or near
it is like whispering in my ear.

When you find true love
it is something you
keep within your heart

true love really can last a lifetime falling in love is by chance but staying in love is also a choice and for two people to stay together its really a enjoyable experience having a little piece of heaven on earth if you have love that last a lifetime. i guess im lucky having that kind of love from my adolescent age till now...
nice point of view uwakkkk

cz sweetybabe love really never fades kahit maghalo man puti sa de color...

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.

If you cannot love another person without conditions, then it is not love at all.

Love has the greatest power, and it is the source of all our happiness and harmony.

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