![]() Where did our parents or the movies or the girl/boy next door get THEIR feelings that we so eagerly, half-consciously imitated that wonderful first time? Again, very true, even central - but all these only move the question back a step. We've read novels, gossiped, played voyeur, even willed it to happen. ![]() ![]() ![]() So, if not just from literal "chemistry" alone, then from our history and observation: we've watched our parents and older siblings and our friends and, perhaps most of all, the movies and TV. What you actually experience isn't a hormone, any more than your experience of pain is identical with nerve firings. It's undoubtedly true that we wouldn't have those feelings without them, but it's equally true that the two aren't identical. Where did those feelings, more than feelings, that whole reorientation of your character and life, where did it come from? From "chemistry", as we tactfully say, meaning that we suspect our emotions are "really run" by our hormone system, specifically the brain’s “love-chemicals,” serotonin, dopomaine and that infamous nine amino acid peptide, C43H66N12O12S2 oxytocin. ![]() Remember the first time you fell in love. ![]()
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