WHAT IS LOVE, AND WHAT TRIGGERS IT?
Love is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. Love comes in many forms, varying from the generic and platonic type – such as ‘I love that film’ and ‘I love my friends’ – to the more personal, intense romantic love. Love is seen as a mammalian drive similar to hunger or thirst, as it activates the same area of the brain as these cravings. It is speculated that romantic love evolved to enable us to focus our mating energy on one partner long enough to stay together and rear young.
There are many different triggers for love: specific chemicals being released in the brain, meeting someone who you are compatible with and so on. As long as we are surrounded by other people, it would be near impossible to prevent love from eventually happening in some way or another.