Love? Nature or behavior

Romantic love is deemed to be of a higher metaphysical and ethical status than sexual or physical attractiveness alone.
Is love a nature or a behavior?
When your in a realtionship and in love do you notice a change in your/another persons demeanour/mood?
Do you think this happens?

MrScruff

Deemed so by who??
I don't think so myself

DON'T TAKE LIFE SO SERIOUSLY IT'S NOT LIKE YOUR GETTING OUT ALIVE

connundrum

Somebody's bored

joe_chicken

connundrum wrote:

Somebody's bored

I dont know whos worse... her for making the threads or us responding


probably her though

no
just asking opinions on this topic

connundrum

joe_chicken wrote:

I dont know whos worse... her for making the threads or us responding


probably her though

Meh, we'll call it 60/40 to her. We're still taking a good 40 seconds per reply so it does show 'some interest' on our part

ZiabR

coolsmileygirl wrote:

Romantic love is deemed to be of a higher metaphysical and ethical status than sexual or physical attractiveness alone.
Is love a nature or a behavior?
When your in a realtionship and in love do you notice a change in your/another persons demeanour/mood?
Do you think this happens?

I think love it in our nature. It is in our nature to be attracted to the opposite sex in my opinion and love is how this attraction is represented.

But i do feel that when people are in love they may not notice changes in each others moods or demeanour.

AngryBadger

coolsmileygirl wrote:

Romantic love is deemed to be of a higher metaphysical and ethical status than sexual or physical attractiveness alone.
Is love a nature or a behavior?
When your in a realtionship and in love do you notice a change in your/another persons demeanour/mood?
Do you think this happens?

WHat you should do is get a pet monkey, have someone monitor how well you look after him, and then keep monitoring him while you're with your latest fling, see if the monkey becomes neglected or not. That'd be a pretty good indicator of whether or not your attitude had changed.

I'd expect a few traumatised monkeys myself. Also Monkey soup.

logik

logik wrote:

I think love it in our nature. It is in our nature to be attracted to the opposite sex in my opinion and love is how this attraction is represented.

But i do feel that when people are in love they may not notice changes in each others moods or demeanour.

Would you not think it makes you happier or more content?
Would being with or talking to the person you love even in the first stages not make you happier or elevate your mood.
I have found this in the past anyway.

ZiabR

coolsmileygirl wrote:

Would you not think it makes you happier or more content?
Would being with or talking to the person you love even in the first stages not make you happier or elevate your mood.
I have found this in the past anyway.

Absolutely. I could not agree more with you. The person you love is the person you trust. When you trust someone, you feel like you can tell them everything and this makes you feel good. So yes, something as small as talking to the one you love can make you feel happy.

jsr

I love nature. I also love peoples behavoir, but only if its funny or they are being nice to me;)

Kermitt

coolsmileygirl wrote:

Would you not think it makes you happier or more content?
Would being with or talking to the person you love even in the first stages not make you happier or elevate your mood.
I have found this in the past anyway.

I must agree, Its amazing how even chattin to the one you care about, in person or on the phone can affect your mood. I think its because all the happy thoughts you have with this person are what run around in your head, and by and large he/she reminds you of happy things. As for love itself. it will never be explained, and does the wierdest things to people. Great things.

Wanted Man

When you're in love, the leaves are greener, the sky is bluer, human nature is brighter....you understand people better, have a better insight, from the greatest to the lowest, virtually everyone is in love and when you are in love you want of course to protect the object of your affection...and that is why if you thought an invasion by another country would threathen that object or embarrass you in front of that object you might take up arms and join an insurgency...

However, Love is fundamental to us all like breathing and eating and is a natural thing which most people cannot refuse for long...and really you can't force yourself to be in love with someone you are not...so I think it is nature...

Wanted Man

But I think you are right when you say love is more than just physical longing for someone...