What is love? - Brad Troeger
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Is love a signal winding through your neural pathways? A cliche? A cult? Love is easy to compare but difficult to define, maybe because we’re fundamentally biased; we try to define love while falling in or out of it. And love feels differently to every person who feels it, but this subjective emotion has evolutionary explanations, too. Brad Troeger takes a shot at the definition of love.
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To learn more about what Brad Troeger is up to, check out his website and his blog.
It turns out the brain in love looks strikingly similar to one on drugs like cocaine! Find out what drives love and why we simply love being in love.
There are many types of love. Philadelphia is known as The City of Brotherly Love. Then, there's romantic love between people. What are the other kinds of love -- have you experienced any of them?
Here's the classic music video by Hadaway, What is Love? While we're at it, what is kissing? And, how much is love worth?
Dr. Gary Chapman’s expertise in marriage begins with the success and failures he and his wife Karolyn have experienced in their marriage for more than 45 years. To learn more, here are the five love languages website & assessment tools.
Sometimes, as the educator mentions, love lasts a lifetime. Here's a story of a couple that has been in love for 58 years (and they show no signs of stopping).

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Have you ever hated a person to whom someday you loved her/him? Do you consider that this feeling...
I have just hated one person in my life after she had been very important for me because I believed that I really loved her because she was my first girlfriend,but this feeling emerged because she cheated me and I found out her lies, and I don't think that this feeling was because I wanted to take a revenge or something like that but because I wanted to erase that love through hate
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