Is there a correlation between love and happiness?
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Yes, there is. And the "best fitted line" has a positive slope. The graph is a scaterred dot becuase there are some other influencing factors. That makes love anf life more interesting.
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(m)\n\nMy definition of love used to be this overwhelming warm, fuzzy feeling. When you see her, the world seems beautiful, the birds are singing, and everything reminds you of her. Your heart races whenever she walks into the room.\n\nThat is "being in love." This emotional reaction is a lot of fun but we shouldn't confuse these feelings with love itself. Some people think that they can tell how long a relationship will last based upon how powerful the feelings of attraction are. They spend massive amounts of time trying to decide whether or not they're "in love."\n\nWhat they're overlooking is that love is a decision to do what is best for another person, even if the warm fuzzies are long gone. But it's not enough to want to do what is good for the other. We must form our minds according to the truth that God has revealed so that we know what is good for the other, and we are not just doing whatever feels good. Once we know what is good for the other, all that remains is to follow through and live out that love in our actions.\n\nI think the biggest difference between love and infatuation is that love does not "happen" to couples--it is something they do. It is a task. If the initial excitement of a relationship tapers off and we conclude from this that love is gone, we can be sure that love was never there to begin with. After all, if love is simply about having romantic feelings, how could a bride and groom promise each other that their marriage will last "until death do us part"? More likely, it would last until boredom do us part. Therefore, you can not determine the worth of a relationship by measuring the intensity of emotions.\n\nSuppose you're married and your pregnant wife has food cravings. It is four in the morning, and she wants you to go to the grocery store to get her fudge-brownie ice cream, pickle juice, and beef jerky. You roll over and look at your bride and she does not seem to be glowing like she did on your wedding day. At four in the morning, your world is not looking beautiful and the singing birds have gone mute. But after kissing her fevered forehead, you walk out the door and drive to the store. Has love gone away? Actually, it's more real than ever.\n\nSo, how do you know if you love a woman? Pope John Paul II has answered this question perfectly by saying that "the greater the feeling of responsibility for the [beloved] the more true love there is."(1) The greatest example of this love is Christ. He alone perfectly reveals how to love a woman. If we ever need to know how to properly love a woman, all we need to do is look at a crucifix.
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Ability to love and express love unconditionally.
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Yes, to find love and happiness.
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i think happiness is when you dont have to worry about anything and everything falls in the right place. Being with the people that love you and having fun like nothing else matters but that very monment.
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Love doesnt really have certain qualities actually....it just feels right when you're with that person. You feel like you're at ease and well...you feel...comfortable.
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no love is just chemicals in your brain makeing you feel good it goes away in time .......look at the divorce rate. the ones who are still together are just doing it for the kids or to old now to change
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i think that the idea of loving and being loved is not the real purpose of life.  personally, i think that love is just a part of it.  Happiness, i think, is the real purpose of life, and therefore balance.  i think that balance is all, you need a little bit of everything...
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its obviously wayyyyyy more complicated than that...  but here is what i found.\n\n\n  The Neurobiology of Love.\n\n        * Esch T,\n        * Stefano GB.\n\n    Charite-University Medicine Berlin, Institute for General Practice and Family Medicine, Schumannstrasse 20/21, 10117 Berlin, Germany.\n\n    Love is a complex neurobiological phenomenon, relying on trust, belief, pleasure and reward activities within the brain, i.e., limbic processes. These processes critically involve oxytocin, vasopressin, dopamine, and serotonergic signaling. Moreover, endorphin and endogenous morphinergic mechanisms, coupled to nitric oxide autoregulatory pathways, play a role. Naturally rewarding or pleasurable activities are necessary for survival and appetitive motivation, usually governing beneficial biological behaviors like eating, sex, and reproduction. Yet, a broad basis of common signaling and beneficial neurobiological features exists with connection to the love concept, thereby combining physiological aspects related to maternal, romantic or sexual love and attachment with other healthy activities or neurobiological states. Medical practice can make use of this concept, i.e., mind/body or integrative medicine. Thus, love, pleasure, and lust have a stress-reducing and health-promoting potential, since they carry the ability to heal or facilitate beneficial motivation and behavior. In addition, love and pleasure ensure the survival of individuals and their species. After all, love is a joyful and useful activity that encompasses wellness and feelings of well-being.\n\n    PMID: 15990719 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]\n\nalso see:\nhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17118931&query_hl=13&itool=pubmed_docsum\n\nthis information was from\n http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/\n\nwhen you search, it lists all the different databases that have results.. i clicked on "pubmed" and got this summary..  full papers are viewable at "pubmed cenrtal"
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love is more than sex.  Do blind people love..?  love is a deep concern for another human,(since you mentioned persons).  It causes the heart of man to seek and perform what is good and best for another.  Love is patient, kind, gentle, patient, is not jealous, does not keep count of someone mistakes, does not envy, is not easily provoked, and is gentle.  Love is good.... Believe in Love.  Practice love... Love is a constant choice..
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isn't there a chance of combining friendship and love?\ni think you should follow your heart if there isn't any option  for having everybody happy...
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The spelling of course...!!! (just kidding...) Well, life requires practicality and sometimes forgets the emotions.It often use the brain rather than the heart.Love, on the other hand,forgets to be practical.It gives much concern with the feelings of the heart over the brain.. But i think it is healthier to live a LIFE full of LOVE... after all, you go both ways...
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There was actually a very interesting article about the chemistry of love in "National Geographic" magazine a few months back. You should google their website and see if they have any info about it there.\n\nOne interesting note that I recall from the article: the chemical profile of the brains of people who are in love is very much like that of a bipolar person. In other words, love is a psychological disorder.\n\nScary, ain't it?
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Happiness is part of your perception. Think of all the things you are thankful for, all the things in life that make it special. True happiness is in thought, in feeling. No one and nothing will give that to you, you have to feel it for yourself.
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no only as for long as its meant to be, some love starts from just a look while others take time to grow. Both are  very vulnerable the slightest breeze could destroy  even the strongest love. Love's is to unpredictable to say any thing definitive about it . LOVE IS THE CAUSE OF HAPPINESS AND SADNESS. Love is ever thing it last as long as beauty exists
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Researchers have found that feelings of intense romantic love are linked to activity in two areas of the brain, which have high levels of dopamine activity. But functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans found women's brains showed emotional responses, while men's showed activity linked to sexual arousal. The researchers also found activity in other areas of the brain changed - including one that another study showed was active when people ate chocolate.
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i think love is caring enough about someone to care more about their wellbeing than your own...and to keep working on keeping the relationship tight, because even the closest relationships will go down the tubes if you don't go out of your way to do/say nice things for each other!