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Wouldnt fit in the envelope.

 

Part Deux of Infinity - What is Love & How Do We Know We Are In Love

I have found that an In-Love Brain looks very different from one experiencing mere lust, and it's also unlike a brain of someone in a long-term, committed relationship. Studies led by Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University and one of the leading experts on the biological basis of love, have revealed that the brain's "in love" phase is a unique and well-defined period of time, and there are 13 telltale signs that you're in it.

Thinking this one's special

When you're in love, you begin to think your beloved is unique. The belief is coupled with an inability to feel romantic passion for anyone else, especially anyone on Tinder. Fisher and her colleagues believe this single-mindedness results from elevated levels of central dopamine — a chemical involved in attention and focus — in your brain.

Focusing on the positive

People who are truly in love tend to focus on the positive qualities of their beloved, while overlooking his or her negative traits like waking each other up at 6:30 am after they've worked the night shift. They also focus on events and objects like helicopter rides or thread decals that remind them of their loved one, daydreaming about these precious little moments and mementos. This focused attention is also thought to result from elevated levels of central dopamine, as well as a spike in central norepinephrine, a chemical associated with increased memory in the presence of new stimuli. Please don't confuse this with the need for excessive masturbation.

Emotional instability

As is well known, falling in love often leads to emotional and physiological instability. You bounce between exhilaration, euphoria, increased truck mods or fishing, sleeplessness, loss of appetite for tacos, trembling while using tools, a racing heart while sending it, and accelerated breathing, as well as anxiety, panic and feelings of despair when your relationship suffers even the smallest setback. These mood swings parallel the behavior of TacomaWorld addicts. And indeed, when in-love people are shown pictures of their loved ones, it fires up the same regions of the brain that activate when a Tacoma addict get's a like or is tagged in a thread. Being in love, researchers say, is a form of addiction.

Intensifying attraction

Going through some sort of adversity with another person tends to intensify romantic attraction. Central dopamine may be responsible for this reaction, too, because research shows that when a reward of sex is delayed, dopamine-producing neurons in the mid-brain region become more productive and then the Tinder Finger usually starts to twitch.

Intrusive thinking

Most island people who are in love spend, on average, more than 85 percent of their waking hours Goo Gooing over their "love object," according to their TacomaWorld friends, who also refer to it as Fucking Intrusive Thinking. They say this form of obsessive behavior may result from decreased levels of central serotonin (aka common sense) in the brain, a condition that has been associated with obsessive behavior previously. Basically, a swift kick in the ass will adjust that mentality but it may take two in certain cases.

Emotional dependency

People in love regularly exhibit signs of emotional dependency on their relationship, and quite honestly, it's sickening. This might also include exhibits of possessiveness, jealousy, fear of rejection, and separation anxiety. FFS! For instance, looking at the brains of individuals viewing photos of a rejected Tacoma, or a Tacoma they were still in love with after trading it in, the resulting functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) showed activation in several brain areas, including foreskin areas like the cingulate gyrus that have been shown to play a role in vaginal cravings. "Activation of areas involved in vaginal addiction may help explain the obsessive behaviors associated with rejection of TacomaWorld build thread posts.

Planning a future

They also long for emotional union with their beloved while in their truck, seeking out ways to get closer and day-dreaming about their future mods together. This drive to be with another person doing mods is sort of like our drive toward water and other things we need to survive. It's ok though if the feeling isn't mutual and you should basically just get on with them anyway and don't forget, you are neglecting your forum friends too. This puts romantic mod love in the company of survival systems, like those that make us hungry or thirsty for BLO. Personally, "I think of romantic love as part of the human sex strategy. It helps us form pair-bonds, which help us survive. We were built to experience the magic of love and to be driven toward another." Embrace that!

Feelings of empathy

People who are in love generally feel a powerful sense of empathy toward their beloved truck if there is something wrong with it. This is also true with a love partner and they often feel the other person's pain as their own and being willing to sacrifice anything for the other person.

Aligning interests
Falling in love is marked by a tendency to reorder your daily priorities and/or change your clothing, mannerisms, habits or values so that they better align with those of your beloved. Even so, being yourself may be your best bet, so don't feel like you have to wear Izod sweaters tied around your waist. My research found that people with so-called testosterone-dominant personalities (highly analytical, competitive and emotionally contained numbnuts) were often drawn to mates with personalities linked to high estrogen and oxytocin levels — these individuals tended to be "empathetic, nurturing, trusting and prosocial, and introspective, seeking meaning and identity. In other words be more social and less stuck up her butt! Geeze.

Possessive feelings

Those who are deeply in love typically experience abnormally high sexual desires for their beloved, but there are strong emotional strings attached. So be wary and try to resist as much as possible in the beginning. The longing for sex is coupled with possessiveness, a desire for sexual exclusivity, and extreme jealousy when the partner is suspected of infidelity. This shit will make you bat shit crazy! This possessiveness is thought to have evolved so that an in-love person will compel his or her partner to spurn other suitors, thereby insuring that the couple's courtship is not interrupted until conception has occurred. In other words, don't be a Richard, Richard.

Craving an emotional union

While the desire for sexual union is important to people in love, the craving for emotional union takes precedence. Let me say that again because I know you are mostly thinking with the little head! The emotional union takes precedence!!!! Sex is important but not the most important part of your relationship!

Finally (for this session)

Feeling out of control

I've found that individuals who report being "in love" commonly say their passion is involuntary and uncontrollable. Two reactions to this are

and dumbass.


I asked the other 437 men and women in Chincoteague to respond to 200 statements on romantic love. Many, or I should say the majority of them simply drew a fish on the paper. The others expressed feelings of helplessness, saying their obsession was irrational and involuntary. I kicked those wusses in the ass and showed them the door. One participant, a renowned fisherman in his early 40s I think (I never ask unless they are hot or look loose) wrote this about a office crush, "I am advancing toward the thesis that this attraction for (blank) is a kind of biological, instinct-like action that is not under voluntary or logical control. ... It directs me. I try desperately to argue with it, to limit its influence, to channel it (into sex, for example), to deny it, to enjoy it, and, yes, dammit, to make her respond! Even though I know that (blank) and I have absolutely no chance of making a life together, the thought of her is an obsession,"

I gave this guy a number to suicide hotline, a six pack and a months subscription to bait of the month club. He was too damn weird even for me.

So Miguel, I hope you are learning as we travel down this Tunnel Of Love I am guiding you through! You will definitely be a better sailor if you just keep your arms and legs in the row boat for the rest of the journey.

 

Awwwww!!!!!! He really cares!!!!! I think my sessions are making an impact.

 

Holy Fawk Rob!!!!!! I haven't even finished reading it but this is pure GOLD! I like how you have related these steps to the OP and his situation and the TW addiction. Great write up.

 

I got 2 stickers so I should feel extra special. That Randall was stingy and only gave me one Lair and #RandFab sticker

 

I just want to make sure I never have to worry about our boy making a long ass lonely drive or to retrieve another ring ever again!!!!!!! That shit broke my heart.

 

Either that or Mike knows we are fuck ups and need two just in case

 

That shit sucks. Glad he's back on that horse. Hope he doesn't end up like me with being hardened from a bad burn.

 

Don't worry, I will make sure he stays soft until it's time, then he will be a granite column! And if you need, I can work some Love Magic on your too, in a later session of course. Mike is a demanding subject and I am concentrating all my energy on him right now.

But later, you and I, maybe at the Pole Knob one of these days.

 

Roberto, I'm touched! I'm going to have to redesigned the 1st page to link to your wise words of love.

 

It’s a little deep in here

 

Just giving you the Love you deserve!

 

No shit

 

Ne laissez pas nos leçons d'amour vous effrayer. Ce sont pour le bénéfice du PO et tout ce que nous voulons, c'est Amour Amour Amour

 

Good shit tho