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    Chemistry of Lust and Love

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    Lust, romance and attachment are the three stages of falling in love according to the document. The first stage is lust, fueled by sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone which make us want to find a mate. The second stage is romantic attraction where you feel madly in love with someone and can't stop thinking about them. The third stage is attachment where the relationship becomes long term through things like marriage, kids or shared responsibilities and is influenced by the love hormone oxytocin which acts as a bond between partners to help raise offspring.

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    Lust, romance and attachment are the three stages of falling in love according to the document. The first stage is lust, fueled by sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone which make us want to find a mate. The second stage is romantic attraction where you feel madly in love with someone and can't stop thinking about them. The third stage is attachment where the relationship becomes long term through things like marriage, kids or shared responsibilities and is influenced by the love hormone oxytocin which acts as a bond between partners to help raise offspring.

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    Lust, romance and attachment – the three things that

    happen when we fall in love

    Is love truly a drug? And


    are looks really that
    important? Science
    communicator Emer
    Maguire talks us through
    love's three stages.
    STAGE ONE – LUST

    We begin with lust, the fun-filled and flirting-fueled first


    stage. At puberty, two sex hormones become active in our
    bodies – estrogen and testosterone. Suddenly we find
    ourselves preoccupied with the urge to find someone to
    reproduce with.
    Have you ever been in a club and someone makes eye contact with you across
    a crowded bar? If so, congratulations! That means you have engaged in the
    age old flirting ritual, the copulatory gaze. This intimate eye contact ignites an
    animalistic part of the human brain, giving us two choices – approach or
    retreat. If the feeling is mutual, feel free to approach your new beau. If not,
    back away slowly.
    Stage two – romantic attraction
    Once you make your way through all
    the flirting and fancying of stage one,
    you can move to stage two –
    romantic attraction. This is the stage
    where you are madly in love. Think
    fireworks, Romeo and Juliet, rose
    tinted glasses, butterflies-in-the-
    tummy kind of love. Your new love is
    all you can think about and talk
    about, much to the annoyance of
    everyone else around you.
    Can we explain such euphoric
    and romantic feelings through
    science? In short, yes.
    Stage three – attachment
    Welcome to stage three – attachment. You are
    now in this relationship for the long haul. Whether
    it’s a mortgage, a marriage, getting an adorable
    puppy together or having a couple of kids, you’re
    pretty sure you and your other half are long-term
    lovers.
    The brain reacts with a dose of oxytocin, the love
    hormone. It acts like the glue in a long-term
    relationship. In terms of evolution, it may have
    been helpful to be stuck with your partner long
    enough to create and raise offspring to help our
    species survive.
    For those of you who are lucky enough to make it
    through the three stages of love, congratulations!
    But don’t thank romance – thank science.

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