is a mesmerizing experience. Apart from the effects on the brain and body, love
captivates our social self.

If you want to know if you are truly in love, then watch out for some signs.
Small things may begin to matter to you but are irrelevant at the same time. You
may keep smiling all day, or make plans for your next weekend even before the
current weekend is over. You often will become overly protective. These signs are
universal and are common in all the couples who were studied.

Now the pain, the heartbreaks, and all other terrible emotions we go
through when our relationships go down the drain also affect our brain and body.
Heysigmund.com reported a study that claims, based on the brain scans of people
who had recently came out of relationships, that heartbreaks and physical injuries
stimulate the same part of the brain. Perhaps surprisingly, the same study also
found that taking painkillers like Tylenol can ease the sufferings of a heart-broken
person.

Heart-break makes you cry, often so hard that you feel your mouth sour
while crying. Your entire jawline stiffens and your throat becomes heavy. All
of this happens when you breakup after reaching the
attachment stage. All of these reactions are
your body’s coping-mechanism.

Medicaldaily.com reports
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chemical make-up and are healthy for you to cry out. They have traces of stress
hormones and toxins, which your body wants to get rid of, because the oxygen
level in your body decreases when you are stressed. In turn, your body decreases
oxygen supply to your muscles and diverts more of it to your heart to keep it
beating normally. This is the reason you experience tense body and face muscles.

But again, this is the beauty of being in love. The brain and body love love and
they don’t want it to go. These are the signs that we are addicted to love. Someone
once told me that love is the purest form of emotion in the world, despite it being
a mixture of every emotion known to man. | didn’t understand that person while I
was a teen, but I do understand it now.

Love happens without any reason. It happens without announcing itself
beforehand, and it stays for a life time. You can move on, but it will always be
hidden somewhere in your mind. But don’t worry, it is widely supported that you
become stronger and fall in love more profoundly with someone else if you've
been through a tough breakup. Your brain becomes addicted to love and dives in
again when given the opportunity. It may take time—you may be apprehensive

due to the fear of another heartbreak—but your brain is a brave
gambler. So, technically, you never fail in love.
Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and love
is in the air. Make sure to show and express
your love, but don’t keep yourself restricted
to this particular day. Just remember:
you can never fall in love, you can
only rise in it.