Love Molecule
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 say 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.
The Italian researchers, publishing their study in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, said it was not clear how falling in love triggers higher levels of NGF, but the molecule clearly has an important role in the "social chemistry" between people at the start of a relationship.
I'm sure a lot of romantics out there will disagree, saying how their love will stand the test of time and last forever and ever, growing stronger and stronger...
I personally think this is both true and false at the same time. Love isn't a constant unique definable thing, it changes, grows and morphs with time and has a different feeling and taste at every stage.
So it might be true that people don't feel that same feeling they feel at the beginning of a relationship, but that's only normal as they're no longer at its beginning, they're at a later stage and so they feel something quite different, which is equally beautiful.
Of course that is one nice possibility, the other is that they just wake up one day and stop loving each other :P
[Source: Reuters]
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Posted by: jameed at December 1, 2005 09:51 AMthe other is that they just wake up one day and stop loving each other :P
lol mmm :P
Jameed, nope don't think I've heard of that.
Lamees, lol, its what they say happens isn't it?
Posted by: MMM at December 1, 2005 05:25 PMThis makes sense to me. After five years, I still love my husband but it's not the giddy, all consuming head over heels thing it was in the beginning.
My husband is Tunisian by the way, that's why I sought out your blog. We live in the US. Random - sorry.
Posted by: Jenny at December 2, 2005 08:41 PMhttp://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3169770,00.html
Dear Friends,
The civilized world and democracy generous lessons coming to the region left right and center, all is well and quite at the western front. Yet Palestine and Palestinians are suffering an Israeli holocaust under the eyes and ears of the civilized compassionate world. As if Palestine and the Palestinians are the private domain for the ugly Israeli practice.
"I'm shocked and it hurts me a lot, when a father of a 13 year old daughter said.” If the soldier murderer shot my daughter with 30 bullets, the court murdered her again today 100 times. By releasing the murderer free to kill more”
For all Palestinian and non friends, I want you to read the story as reported by the “Ynetnews” Israeli press,(linc Below) and put your self as a judge for a minute, and if you feel what I feel, or better be feel what the poor father felt, when his 13 year old was shot not by one bullet, but 30 bullets, I want you from the depth of your sense of right and wrong to stand up and do something to stop the killing of Palestinian children.
Please do something to help wakening up the world’s conscience. Justices will see to end all hostilities, but it has to be for both sides.
Please read the article and circulate. the link: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3169770,00.html
I cant forget that I was born and raised in Palestine ,and I can trace my ancestors property to 500 years without having to go to curt to prove it ,and if I do go to curt my rights are all of Palestine ,yet I cant even visit my home town .Am I a victim ?yes I am an an Israeli Holocaust survivor .
It is about time we have to stand for our rights, and stop all the havoc carried by the IDF Israeli defense foresees, D stands for defense!!!! Yet the fighting is not inside Israel, it is inside Gaza and the Western Bank, internationally recognized as Palestinian territories.
Do something before another child dies.
Thank you
I am an Israel holocaust survivor
Please circulate
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3169770,00.html
My deepest and most profound apologies for having posted my comment more than once ,I think it may have registered three times I really did not know how it happened or what I did .
Thanks for your generosity by keeping one ,this means a lot for me .
Salaams and best wishes .I promise it would not happen again .
I think they are right -- I had a great excess of that NGF at the time of our marriage. After a year or so, the GREAT EXCITEMENT feeling faded and a warm worderful feeling took it's place -- and continued till she died - 52 years later.
hale
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