Why is love between lovers hot, passionate, and/or burning? Why is this type of love desired above all others? Why does ‘hot’ love create an emotional tornado inside of us? You see the love of your life, and your heart starts to race, palms start to sweat, you experience a shortness of breath, and you start to feel a combination of excitement and nervousness. Why do we have this uncontrollable response? It is similar to the fight or flight response. Our lives are not in danger when exposed to love, so why are there similarities between the two unmanageable responses? Is it because life without love is not worth living at all?
The fight or flight response helps an animal fight or run for its life. What does this have to do with love? We do not have to fight love or run from it. Do we? The fight or flight response helps every animal stay alive, and maybe our bodies are trying to tell us how important romantic love is to us through the fight or flight response. Life is the most important thing we have, and love follows behind as a close second.
Love is important to everyone, but why does romantic love relate to the fight or flight response? Warm love involves cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components, but burning love involves the above components along with an erotic component. No two animals can share anything more personal than their own physical bodies because this is the most significant item they possess, and the byproduct of the union produces the greatest pleasure know to humans.
Is it the desire for love or lust which creates a connection between fight or flight response and love? Which one is more important to you? Romantic love is most important because it combines the greatest pleasure with the greatest emotion.
Love is composed of a soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle
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