I’m being very specific for a reason. I think I have a clue what family bond love is, but I don’t think I had experienced any type of romance in my 34 years of life.

I’m aware this answer will vary, but that’s why I’m expecting diverse answers and then I could make a sum of all of them, reaching an average and then distillate a final conclusion.

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    6 months ago

    It’s just oxytocin…

    There’s no deep spiritual meaning/feeling.

    Just oxytocin, dopamine, and some other shit.

    Because of human variation, no two people will experience it exactly the same

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      6 months ago

      I don’t disagree with you about how it functions but would you say that differentiates romantic love from love for family or a pet for example?

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        Yeah, theres lots of different kinds, English just uses one word because English is (by and large) a shit language.

        The Greeks had like 5 or 6 different words, English just uses adjectives which is just as functional.

        However language changes the way we think. And English being so lazy like this leads to people “rediscovering” shit over and over.

        On a biological level, yeah, different things get different levels of different things.

        It’s a constant cocktail of shit, so different things hit different, even just randomly sometimes for no reason

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        Because of human variation, no two people will experience it exactly the same

        Because it’s incredibly subjective.