It feels good and is exciting to the mind and heart.Remember how you felt when you met your first love.Legs all shaky heart pounding and in my case stuttering a lot.
Contrary to what most people think, the statistics show that most people fall in love with someone that they have known for a while. People only report falling in love quickly about 1/3 to 40 percent of the time. Of course, this varies from culture to culture. Falling in love happens differently between cultures but it does occur in most cultures.

The Biochemistry of Falling in Love:

Among the first signs of "falling in love" is a giddy high similar
to what might be obtained as a result of an amphetamine boost. This
"high" is a sign that the brain has entered a distinct neurochemical state. This occurs as a result of the hypothalamus releasing a chemical sub-stance (probably phenylethylamine) that is very much like an amphetamine and which, like any "upper", makes the heart beat faster and confers energy. This biochemically-based "high" is experienced by anyone "in love" quite irrespective of their chronological age.

Very noteworthy is the fact that chocolate is high into phenylethylamine--the
very substance that is released by the brain into the bloodstream as a
concomitant of falling in love. When the love-feelings cease the body
craves chocolate because it has developed a tolerance to the phenylethylamines which it is no longer getting--because the brain has stopped secreting them.

Talk show host Phil Donahue nicely summarizes much of this material in his 1985 book THE HUMAN ANIMAL (see ch 6).

Romantic love feelings commence in the region of the lower brain that is known as the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is composed of a dense cluster of nerves which controls hundreds of bodily functions and impacts in a large host of ways the entire nervous system. Whenever a person subjectively perceives another human being as romantically appealing a portion of the hypothalamus transmits a message by way of various chemicals to the pituitary gland. And in turn the pituatary releases a host of its own hormones which rapidly suffuse the entire bloodstream. The sex glands respond to these hormones by rapidly releasing into the bloodstream their own hormones which have the effect, even among preadolescent children, of creating a more rapid heartbeat and a feeling of lightness in the head. Simultaneously the nerve pathways in and around the hypothalamus produce chemicals that induce-provided that these chemicals continued to be produced over a long period of time-what people refer to as "falling in love".
Source(s):
http://health.discovery.com/centers/loverelationships/articles/fallinlove.h...
http://www.angelfire.com/ab6/polepino/Chapter11/Biochemistryoflove.html


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