falling in love

A lot of people who fall in love with a certain person cannot explain why this has happened to them when they are being asked. This is because romantic love has a very mysterious nature which cannot be easily explained and in this essay we are going to examine, as far as research allows us, some of those factors. Romantic love could be best explained as an emotion that guides a person to be attracted to another. Falling in love is an expression of loving somebody madly. Lamm and Wiesmann (1997) claimed that; 'liking ' is the desire to interact with another person, but 'love ' is also involving trust and being excited by another person. This suggests that there is a difference between 'liking ' and 'love '. Sometimes we fall in love before even getting to know one another or we are living unrequited love. The Love invades our lives without us asking. Falling in love is a unique, wonderful and very special experience. An experience that lures us, transforming our view of the world, that ‘captures’ our heart and our mind.
First of all, people fall in love because they seek for companionship and security. Sternberg (1986) developed the Triangular Theory of Love in which romantic love is composed of three components a) proximity, which includes feelings of intimacy , the sense of community with the other person , and the binding of contact , b) passion , which refers to the impulses that lead to sexual desire , in imaginary thoughts about each other , to feel the romance and sexual fulfillment and c) the decision/ commitment , which encompasses the feeling of the person that is in love and the commitment that has to himself and the other in order to maintain his love for the other. Intimacy is the thymic component of sexual relationship. It refers to those feelings that promote contact and consistency in the relationship. It is the feeling that people feel when they are "close" and share feelings, experiences by themselves and with their partner (Schaefer & Olson,