A person only truly falls in love once. Following someone so blindly, not another care in the world but that special someone. Twisting and turning, falling toward the only thing in focus, everything else blurred by the spinning. The security of this clear image can't hurt. Falling, whether in slow motion or at high speed, until you find yourself drawn into a perpetual fall, desperately in love with the one your heart chooses, without remembering how you got there, and not caring, because everything what we know is happiness. How romantic it all seems, the girl falling into the arms of the man-to-be. Two people who stumble along without knowing their fate, finding their soulmate in a blissful utopia. This is true love. However, the truth behind love romance is not romantic at all. Biochemical reactions do not know his charming personality, his blue eyes, his dazzling smile, his gentle laugh. The whole person means nothing to biochemistry, which knows one thing and one thing only, and that is that it must reproduce. He must pass on his traits to perpetuate his species. But how do you convince the heart to reproduce? The combination of the brain and the release of the right chemicals causes that feeling that people so romantically call love. At the first sight of that special person who matches the brain's image of an ideal partner, a small amount of adrenaline is released, the effects of which make a person excited and eager to bond (Britt). Testosterone and estrogen, creating sexual desire, make the desire to bond even stronger (Britt). At the same time, the most important chemical, dopamine, is released. Dopamine causes a rush, a kind of natural euphoria (Smiga). This causes the first strong fe... middle of paper ...... l strong. Falling in love will continue to capture the hearts of men and women, looking for that special someone who can cause the release of those chemicals like no one else can – soul mates. Works Cited Alberts, Nuna. “Chemistry of love”. Saddleback.edu. Saddleback College. February 14, 1999. Web. February 16, 2012. Bozarth, Michal. “Pleasure systems in the brain.” Wings.buffalo.edu. New York University. 1994. Internet. February 16, 2012. Britt, Darice. “The Psychology Behind Love and Romance.” Source.southuniversity.edu. Southern University. February 2012. Web. February 16, 2012. Myers, David. Psychology. 8th ed. New York: Worth Publishers, 2007. Print. Smiga, Clare. “Love in the brain.” Serendip.brynmawr.edu. Serendip. April 26, 2003. The web. February 16, 2012. Sonstroem, Eric. “Butterflies in your stomach.” Indianapublicmedia.org. Indiana University. December 2009. Web. February 16. 2012.