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rogue_pixie
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Re: its scary what love can do to your brain [Re: RJ Tubs 202] 2
#23931518 - 12/16/16 04:26 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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The 'romantic love' I've felt in the past has felt stifling and suffocating. They occupied my mind all the time and it drove me mad. Not very healthy at all. Probably a combination of being with the wrong people and my own issues. I don't think I've ever experienced true mutual romantic love.
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Cosmic_Flame
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Re: its scary what love can do to your brain [Re: rogue_pixie] 3
#23931538 - 12/16/16 05:13 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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"love" is hell, "love" sucks
signed The Grinch, 
people with no sense of individuality/self get lost in lust and think it's love, then they lose themselves...potato
Edited by Cosmic_Flame (12/16/16 05:27 AM)
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LogicaL Chaos
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Re: its scary what love can do to your brain [Re: Cosmic_Flame]
#23931906 - 12/16/16 09:57 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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hence the term "love drunk"
"Love is blind, it will take over your mind!" - love that song, cant remember the name....
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Prisoner#1
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Re: its scary what love can do to your brain [Re: CookieCrumbs] 2
#23931915 - 12/16/16 10:00 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
CookieCrumbs said: Well a huge problem I have is I have an obsessive compulsive personality.
And I'll let that speak for itself.
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passifloracaerulea



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Re: its scary what love can do to your brain [Re: Prisoner#1] 1
#23932008 - 12/16/16 10:25 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Love is an oxytocin addiction.
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LogicaL Chaos
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Re: its scary what love can do to your brain [Re: Prisoner#1]
#23932009 - 12/16/16 10:25 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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that is one creepy gif
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Chakra Shock
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Re: its scary what love can do to your brain [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 2
#23932046 - 12/16/16 10:38 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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indeed, lmfao
Love, as we have defined it primarily in this thread, seems to be the mutual affection between two people in an ongoing, romantic relationship, or courtship.
However, that is just one aspect of love, and it gets so screwy because it's involved with sexuality.
Why does love drive us mad when it's the romantic kind? Because something about sharing our bodies with another person is deeply confirming of our basic value as a human being, reinforced by cultural standards of 'sex is success'.
It's one thing to feel the animalistic inspiration of sex along with genuine affection, yet people tend to take it too far and create a whole new identity around being accepted so fully by another. In my opinion, relationships or courtship is not nearly as important as feeling daily compassion and warmth for others as a member of the human race.
It takes a lot of strength of will to be in a relationship and to remain unhampered by overweening attachments, to feel that love without letting it turn into lust.
and therein lies the dilemma.
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Re: its scary what love can do to your brain [Re: Chakra Shock]
#23939141 - 12/18/16 08:37 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Chakra Shock said:
... yet people tend to take it too far and create a whole new identity around being accepted so fully by another.
In romance and love we often become enmeshed and lose our independent identity.
If it ends we can feel angry, empty, lost, with no drive to live. We don't feel human.
When a lover leaves us, we adopt the title of "dumped". The crown of victim-hood.
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