Nibiru
Bluelighter
I don't want to mate with my mother.
But I do love her.
I mean, oxytocin is implicated in feelings of both sexual and non-sexual love, but I honestly think there is a lot more to it than dopamine triggered by oxytocin. Sometimes love doesn't feel good at all, but you hold to it. I know people who were beaten up and worse as children by their parents who still try to keep relationships with them. I often think of a certain ex-lover I had, and I have to say that there isn't a tinge of sexual desire happening at all anymore, but I do know that I love her a whole lot still.
There is a whole lot more to love than hormones and reward pathways. With me it's a whole way of life. There really is no other option to me. It's not so much an emotion but a ... a force.
But I do love her.
I mean, oxytocin is implicated in feelings of both sexual and non-sexual love, but I honestly think there is a lot more to it than dopamine triggered by oxytocin. Sometimes love doesn't feel good at all, but you hold to it. I know people who were beaten up and worse as children by their parents who still try to keep relationships with them. I often think of a certain ex-lover I had, and I have to say that there isn't a tinge of sexual desire happening at all anymore, but I do know that I love her a whole lot still.
There is a whole lot more to love than hormones and reward pathways. With me it's a whole way of life. There really is no other option to me. It's not so much an emotion but a ... a force.