Allan Hunter’s article is worth a read.
I have been in love a couple of times in my life. I do not know how much of it is a neurochemical-biological thing, but I do have some observations of my own -first, that it is definitely its own vividly real experience, distinctively not the same as merely being sexually attracted to another person, whether that other person is a stranger or a partner in an ongoing intimate relationship; second, being “in love” is not the same thing as loving someone (that’s why the persistent quotation marks, in case you were wondering), — which is a deep and profound state of empathy and caring that doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with sexual desire or sexual relationships even when that is where it occurs — but is instead a giddy and definitely sexualized condition of being high as a kite on someone who seems (at the time) to be perfect and incredible. To go back to the notion that sexual desire is casual and impersonal in comparison to falling in love which is deep and meaningful, it does seem to have at least a couple of grains of truth to it, since part of being in love definitely involved really liking the other person and becoming emotionally involved on a very intimate level, but it is also important to consider how distorted the understanding of the other person is, and the extent to which falling in love really has no more (and maybe less) to do with the inherent specialness of the other person than a good friendship has.
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