by Amelia Walker

Created on: June 18, 2010   Last Updated: June 19, 2010

Love is blind. Love is deaf, mute and dumb as well. It has been scientifically proven that people in love are like drug addicts; incapable of rational judgement making gross mistakes they themselves do not understand why. Is it just a coincidence or are there brain processes going on inside the mind of someone in love that is causing repeats of such behaviour in generation after generation of people. If it really is so dangerous, why has evolution not changed this feature for better?

It is biologically necessary for love to be blind. We humans do not come without our flaws. However if you ask the partner, she/he just cannot see any! Isn't that amazing when you could have gone forever with the list of things you do not like? Biology and the need for offsprings requires that a person love someone else so much that he/she will court, mate and stay on till the offsprings have grown up sufficiently. People are rather hard to live with sometimes and when they get on your nerves, you may just want to leave. Love is what keeps the couple together for at least four years. It is not that the partner is completely unaware of shortcomings, just being with this person feels so good that anything else is secondary.

Love is an addiction. Experiments suggests that a lifetime of dedication to one partner may be a matter of having the right brain chemistry, which links love with addiction.  The scientists have found this is also true for one species of monogamous monkey and for humankind, which might explain why some people irrationally remain in destructive relationships. 

quote: http://www.saddleback.edu/faculty/jfritsen/articles. html#love_addiction
 
Dr. Thomas Insel, who led the research team at Emory University in the U.S., said: "The results so far suggest love is simply a form of addiction that makes some animals form these lifelong pair bonds.'  He believes this may be true of all the mammals that pursue lasting relationships - about three per cent are monogamous while the rest are happy to mate with whoever is available.

Insel's work has focused on the prairie vole, an American rodent that forms a lifelong bond during its first sexual encounter.  From that moment on, the voles stand by one another and raise their young together.  The male will aggressively defend his mate from any perceived rival and will choose her above any other available female. "They are so faithful that if you remove their long-term mate, they will not accept a new

• 1
• 2
• Next Page >>