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8 Things That Happen To Your Brain When You Fall In Love

Love is blind: it’s official

When people say “love is blind,” they usually refer to the fact that you never know who someone will fall in love. However, thanks to your brain, love is blind in a more specific way: it makes it easier for you to overlook your partner’s faults.

Thanks to dopamine and oxytocin, falling in love produces enough feelings of pleasure that your judgment is clouded. The final result is that you may not see all the little things that make the object of your love less-than-perfect.

Unfortunately, this is why so many people unknowingly fall in love with jerks. Their brains are making them focus on the other person’s good quality until it’s too late!

Love can reduce pain

In the movie Roadhouse, we see Patrick Swayze’s character flirting with a doctor by offering this bit of eternal wisdom: “Pain don’t hurt.” Unsurprisingly, science has not verified this particular claim. However, if his character was falling in love at the time, any pain he was experiencing might have been lessened.

Why’s that? Well, a recent study discovered that falling in love with your partner causes your brains to synchronize. Once this happens, physically touching your partner can both boost your empathy and reduce the other person’s pain. This means something as simple as holding hands can seriously reduce how much pain someone is feeling.

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