The word in love we use it to designate that person of the feminine gender who feels love for another individual. It should be noted that the love felt by the lover is linked to what passionate, romanticthat is, it is the love you feel for a couple, your husband, your boyfriend, your fiancé, among others.
To the state or the appearance of the feeling of love in an individual is popularly known as falling in love. Meanwhile, it is characterized by the presence of a marked joycaused precisely by having found a couple with whom to share moments and also manifest through the body, caresses and kisses, all the love they feel.
Usually, a person in love begins to feel first of all for his love a intense physical attraction, which then leads to personal attraction and increases in intensity when the feeling is reciprocated by the loved one. Meanwhile, when both lovers agree on the feeling, they usually enter into a loving relationship that is popularly known as courtship and that, if successful, can even lead to marriage and the decision to start a family with the person they love.
A person in love is easy to recognize because they will manifest certain actions and behaviors such as: desire for intimacy and union with their love, desire to be reciprocated by the other, constantly thinking about their beloved, lack of concentration due to thinking about him all the time , idealization of his person, among others.
It is worth indicating that love presents physical reactions, that is, love begins in the brain and from there it passes to our endocrine system from where it sends physical responses and changes in the hypothalamus as a consequence of the secretion of the dopamine hormone.
On the other hand, in colloquial language we also tend to use the word extensively to account for the extreme liking that a person experiences for something, an activity, for example. My cousin is in love with tennis. In every free moment he makes a getaway to play it.
The antagonistic concept to the one that concerns us is that of indifferent because it stands out precisely for not showing affection, interest, or preference for anything and anyone.
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