Love Match

So think you are in love. You have those feelings that everybody gets when they’re in love. I mean you think about you him or her all the time. You feel like you have to be with that person all the time. You’ve been together all day and when you part ways for the night you already miss that person. That’s love right?

Well lets take a closer look.

That feeling you have that has just engulfed your life could be a couple of things.

1. Infatuation: Is a chemical reaction of dopamine, nor epinephrine, pheylethalimine that causes us to feel good and produce adrenaline. In short these are natural “drugs” that our body produces and can affect rationale thinking, emotional attachment and feelings of bliss and sexual arousal.

So I guess that wouldn’t be love.

2. Physical attraction: Being physically attracted to somebody doesn’t mean you love them. You might be physically attracted to a model or a Hollywood actor but that doesn’t mean you have feelings of trust and commitment to them.

So that wouldn’t be love.

The dictionary has a number of definitions of what love could be but lets look at the 5 ways to know if you are in love.

1. First and foremost and by far the biggest sign that you are in love is that you put your partner’s feelings above your own. If you want to go to the mall but your boyfriend really wants you to sit down and watch the big game with him you will watch the game. On the other hand this also should work in reverse. He should care enough about you to want to make you happy

2. You have a total and complete trust in the other person to be able to go hang out with some of his friends and feel totally confident that he is not going to be with a another girl. In fact that trust is so much so that it’s not even a thought.

3. You feel content in your relationship and feel totally fulfilled. You feel that you’re relationship is complete and that nothing is missing.

4. Your arguments are short lived and you don’t go to bed angry with each other. You are going to have differences in your relationship but how you handle that argument is the key to knowing if you are in love.

5. You never would ask your boyfriend to choose between you and his family or friends. And of course he wouldn’t either.

There are many other ways to know whether you are in love or infatuation. But when you fall in love you know you are in love.

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