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“Was love at first sight“. It is a phrase that we hear more than we are aware of processing. Whether in literary novels, on social networks, in songs, in movies or coming from ourselves, it is a premise that makes people feel that we have found our better half or soul mate and that it is even the love of our life. But how true is that?exists really love at first sight?
Romantic songs, love series and many books have made us believe that we can love someone just by seeing them for the first time, or that a first meeting is enough to know that it is that person who will be in our lives forever. However, the sensations and emotions that we experience in that first contact and during the infatuation they are not even close to being love, since it is built with trust, intimacy, communication, compatibility and other factors that go beyond feeling butterflies in the stomach.
He infatuation It is the first stage of love. In it there is an uncontrolled or excessive segregation of testosterone, which awakens the desire for the other person. The levels of oxytocin, the substance that causes attachment, also skyrocket, as well as endorphins and dopamine, which give us pleasure and that famous feeling in the stomach.
And while this explosion of chemicals in the brain is intense, it doesn’t mean it’s loveand much less that it was given at first sight.
Is there love at first sight?
The resounding answer is no, according to science. A study conducted by the University of Zurich concluded that the love at first sight does not existexplaining that what happens is that there is a conspiracy of memory built by couples to feed their relationship, while in other people what happens is just a shot of intense desire at the first contact.
The same study indicated that what manifests itself in a first date or a first meeting between two people is an attraction, which in many cases is merely physical, also producing the ‘halo effect’, which is nothing more than attributing positive characteristics. to a person that we like physically, even when we do not have sufficient or basic information that allows us to corroborate that perception.
For her part, Herminia Pasantes Ordóñez, an academic at the Institute of Cellular Physiology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) also stated that the love at first does not exist. He explained that it is a sensation that occurs in the so-called “reward circuit”, which causes excessive pleasure, similar to what happens when we take drugs, which is why we seek to be with the person we like at all times, something that happens during the infatuationa stage that usually lasts between 6 and 7 months.
If you thought that feeling butterflies in your stomach after seeing that man or woman you love, it was a sign that he is love at first sightyou already know that it is not like that, it is just an attraction or desire that is part of the infatuation and that it can become love if you work on it.
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