Molecule gives passionate lovers just one year

I hate to see passion/desire reduced to biology.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051129/hl_nm/love_molecule_dc;_ylt=AgtR1IScxMh8h9fUx__EZpKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ

Molecule gives passionate lovers just one year
Tue Nov 29,12:34 PM ET

ROME (Reuters) - Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It's all part of falling passionately in love -- and scientists now tell us the feeling won't last more than a year.

The powerful emotions that bowl over new lovers are triggered by a molecule known as nerve growth factor (NGF), according to Pavia University researchers.
The Italian scientists found far higher levels of NGF in the blood of 58 people who had recently fallen madly in love than in that of a group of singles and people in long-term relationships.

But after a year with the same lover, the quantity of the 'love molecule' in their blood had fallen to the same level as that of the other groups........

it's no longer worrysome to fart in their presence :D

During the first year, the fart is "adorable".

After the first year, "Will ya quit stinking up my room?"

After SEVEN years, Well...

They haven't found the love gene yet. Because after 4 years my boyfriend and I still have "OMGSQUEEloveyasomuch" moments that feel a whole lot like that "euphoric and a bit silly" thing. I'm sure others feel similarly.

:hi:

You nailed it -- the crush gene is cute, but nothing can top the deep love that kicks in later for the lucky ones like us.

That greeting card from the Worst Family is a show stopper. Well done!

:hi:

Six months is usually the extent of it.
Then all those "Cute little THINGS" you LOVED so much about them start to become really annoying, the amount of sex drops down to less than 10% of what you had when you first met, and,(most telling) somebody starts bugging the other to bring the Teeeeeee-Veeeeeee into what used to be called "the LOVE Chamber", and if you DO have sex, it's with Jay Leno officiating...

Oh, you might still dig the hell out of each other, but you've moved into the heavy hand-holding phase of life.

And they're just figuring this out? I've realized it for YEARS.

--the stars do shine.
Tell me why
The ivy twines.
Tell me why
The sky's so blue,
And I will tell you
Just why I love you.

Nuclear fusion
is why stars shine
Tropisms make
the ivy twine.
Rayleigh scattering
makes the sky so blue
Gonads and hormones
are why I love you!

It's just that the biological component of desire is being better explained.

I love science! :loveya:

it will happen.

and they don't fall away just because it does.

... ifyer lucky enough, the party can go on, and on, and on, and on...

...no end in sight!

Thing is, "love" isn't about sex, or passion, or gonads, though all of those things may be pleasantly involved.

"Love" is an indescribable (but amazing) conglomeration of wanting/needing another person to be happy, healthy, whole, and fulfilled, and about what you do to bring that about. "True love" is when two people feel this about each other.

It's quite astonishing when you see it, and even more so when you experience it.

But the slippery friction of mucous membranes in contact (fun though it may be) is not an integral component thereof.

My grandparents were happily married for more than 60 years, and it was simply awesome to watch how they looked after each other and thought about what would make each other happy.

respectfully,
Bright

Now if only those fancy dancy lab guys could come up with a molecule that lets me forget the #$%^!!! And no ethanol doesnt cut it.

"Love ain't nothing but sex mis-spelled."-Harlan Ellison

Oh no not again
It hurts so good
I don't understand
Infatuation
Infatuation
Infatuation
Infatuation

Ah, the sweet smell of lust in the fall ...