Growth Love

[Rollo Tamasi]

Are you in love with someone?
Your spouse or close friend?
Are you looking to fall in love with someone?
I read an interesting article that gives us some ideas of how to understand love.

If seems as though science hasn't figured out love yet, but they are working on it.
They feel at this time it is more of a chemical reaction in the body than anything else.
I would say that is just stage one.

Love is a behavioral addiction, we get addicted to someone because of the return we get.
It seems to be a natural occurrence we cannot fight.
Some thoughts of love is detecting body movement and seeing if it contains signs of love.
Love is found in the voice, the tone and the change in frequency.
And love is found in the words and statements one would say.

Science has found love to fall into three categories.
1. Lust
The body reacts to changes in their hormones, estrogen and testosterone.
2. Attraction
Again, chemicals in the body react to another person with adrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin.
3. Attachment
Oxytocin is known as the "cuddle hormone" and vesopressin.

I don't know what it all means, but science is catching up.
Someday they'll be making artificial people that are chemically perfect for us.
Oh my, what a thought.
But I'm sure there is more to love than breaking down the chemical reactions.

You got any ideas?

 

[Eugene]

Science hasn't figured out love yet, but they are working on it.
You got any ideas?

SCIENCE?

 

[KevinK]

Hormones and the like are the currency of love, but not its essence. You may have $10 for lunch (closer to $20 where I live ), but you have to go to the restaurant and buy food, not literally eat money.

 

[Truthfrees]

interesting

dr caroline leaf says to be prayerfully careful who we fall in love with because we end up chemically imprinting on each other

i feel like my wife and i have imprinted on each other

we have been through really rough things and yet we love each other more with time

so for us love is a commitment - we choose to KEEP loving each other and working things out - and there also seems to be a bond/attraction that could be described as chemical

God told me she was the one for me so i fell in love first

she was intrigued with my character and spirituality but it took her longer to fall in love with me

imo the chemical attraction works because we work daily on loving each other in a committed way

the loyalty to each other is what causes us to keep the good chemicals working well

God Bless you my friend

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

interesting

dr caroline leaf says to be prayerfully careful who we fall in love with because we end up chemically imprinting on each other

i feel like my wife and i have imprinted on each other

we have been through really rough things and yet we love each other more with time

so for us love is a commitment - we choose to KEEP loving each other and working things out - and there also seems to be a bond/attraction that could be described as chemical

God told me she was the one for me so i fell in love first

she was intrigued with my character and spirituality but it took her longer to fall in love with me

imo the chemical attraction works because we work daily on loving each other in a committed way

the loyalty to each other is what causes us to keep the good chemicals working well

God Bless you my friend

Thanks.
Great post!

 

[Tessa]

A minister once told about a friend of his (another minister) who was looking after a lady who was a lot older than he was. She was very ill. He married her so that he could live with her which enabled him to look after her better. Before she died he fell in love with her completely. In their case love just grew.

 

[for_his_glory]

This is the beginning that I and my husband started with and now twenty years later it has never changed, I love calling him my gift from God.

Before ever getting married take time to really know each other and establish a friendship that consist of trust and belief in each other. Allow Christ to be the center of your friendship and this will allow you to begin a marriage that is totally Christ centered. Always resolve your problems with the Holy Ghost guidance through the word and you will always have a good marriage. Always be opened and honest with each other for this builds trust in the relationship, but if that trust is broken there is no relationship. Love each other unconditionally as Christ loves us and forgives us our faults. As long as we live in this flesh we will sin at times, but when you acknowledge those sins and ask for forgiveness God will always forgive us. Always be ready to forgive each other seventy times seven, Matthew 22:21,22, and not only forgive, but forget the sin as God remembers our sins no more when we repent of them. The outside appearance will always change and beauty may fade, but it is the heart of the person we are to love and the heart will never change as long as the love of Christ dwells within it.

 

[Jim Parker]

But I'm sure there is more to love than breaking down the chemical reactions.
You got any ideas?

1Cor 13:4-8 defines love