What is Love?

“What’s love got to do with it? What’s love, but a second hand motion?” Tina Turner, as well as other musical artists before and after her time, has mostly produced songs about love, but what is love exactly? Why do some people claim that they see fireworks bursting into the sky when they have fallen in love with someone? Why do people get sweaty palms, butterflies, or nervous when they fall in love? What is it that gets one’s emotions all worked up, or receiving a type of love that runs throughout the whole body? Both through the mind, and physically? Everyday, emotions and feelings always come up into someone’s conversation. What exactly makes someone feel as if they are in love or feel as if they are receiving true love?

It is proven that when someone says the words, “I love you” there is a specific neurochemical that gets transmitted throughout the body that has an effect on the person who hears those three words. Neurotransmitters are nerve cells that connect with one another. The presence or absence of those neurotransmitters at the nerve endings, have a tendency to take a hold of the emotions that we are subjected to (Body Chemistry).

In love, there are natural scents that play a major role in sexual communication called pheromones. When an animal or a person cries, tears stream from their face. Those tears release bulks of water and saliva, which are biological chemicals. For a female for instance, these biological chemicals show one’s mood or status of being. The male on the other hand, will emit these attractants than a female would. Animals would be the perfect juxtapose. Pheromones are easily discoverable and are also another way of communication i.e. body language. Pheromones help animals mark their places...

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...s bursting into the sky when they have fallen in love with someone? Why do people get sweaty palms, butterflies, or nervous when they fall in love? What is it that gets one’s emotions all worked up, or receiving a type of love that runs throughout the whole body? Both through the mind, and physically? Everyday, emotions and feelings always come up into someone’s conversation. What exactly makes someone feel as if they are in love or feel as if they are receiving true love?

Emotions are an important factor when one is learning and memorizing everything that is being established in a relationship. Emotional similarities are hard to make different. In adulthood the connections still chamge slowly than others. Many pathways in love still remain the same but others tend to change. So, “What’s Love Got To Do With It Exactly?” I don’t know, maybe Tina Turner can tell us.