Informative Speech: Falling in love

All right as Kesha once said your love your love your love is my drug surprisingly these works are
accurate considering the similarities that happen in our brain when we fall in love and when we
use drugs according to dr. Steve Stassi in October of 2013 as everyone here is designed to
crave love and affection so this applies to every single one of you so after doing weeks of research
I am here to inform you all of the chemistry behind falling in love I will begin by explaining what
love is then I will talk about the chemicals that are released during a short-term relationship and I
will end on what chemicals are released during a long-term relationship so first what is love
according to Webster dictionary love is a feeling of strong or constant attraction for a person when
we think of love we think of it as more of a recreational activity we come home from a long day at
work and we see our significant other and it's kind of a fun light-hearted thing however we are
biologically designed to fall in love in order to reproduce this allows our species to grow and evolve
for hundreds of years together we can also fall in love subconsciously you might not even know
that it's happening but it is there are small muscular twitches that go on in your face when you're
communicating with someone and you can be attracted to that also there's something called the
human and carry right and to do which is just a fancy way of saying how you smell you can smell
somebody and subconsciously you are being attracted to that so according to goggle in November
of 2006 we often confuse the feelings of lust and love lust is a very temporary feeling solely based
on physical attraction these are the chemicals that are releasing your brain and they are very
temporary this isn't to say that lust can't turn into love but it is definitely not the same thing so now
that I've explained what love is I will talk about the chemicals that are released during a short-
term relationship according to Peggy Gish and Martin Shapiro both professors of human sexuality
at Fresno State they discuss the three main chemicals that are released during the short-term
relationship these centrioles are dopamine noradrenaline and serotonin dopamine is the feeling
of being on cloud 9 you kind of get that head brush you also get this feeling when you have a
large intake of sugar or when you use drugs the next one is noradrenaline it's a lot like what it
sounds like it's an adrenaline rush this is more of the physical symptoms of falling in love such as
sweaty palms your heart pounding or the butterflies in your stomach lastly serotonin it is present
in many other aspects of your life other than falling in love and it is the chemical of mood balance
in the aspect of follow your love serotonin is the reason you might have an obsession or you might
lose sleep over someone so now let it explain what these three chemicals are I will talk about
what happens in your brain term relationship according to Lee a no-brainer and her article how it
works published in February of 2005 she discusses that a short-term relationship lasts between
two to three years before it transitions into what we call a long-term relationship what this means
is that the chemicals that I just talked about have worn off you've built a sort of immunity towards
them so now that high feeling or the butterflies in your stomach they're no longer there however
you have a new drug or in sorry a new chemical come into your brain which is oxytocin now
oxytocin isn't only present between significant others but it is also present in a relationship
between a mother and her child oxytocin is released either when giving birth or breastfeeding and
this is a bond that a mother and the child has that is instantaneous and it can't be broken another
type oxytocin is released because when you are sexually involved with someone so when you
are sexually involved with someone you might think about them all the time and have this sort of
bond that you can't explain and it's not by choice it's a chemical that is going on in your brain
according to Telegraph writer Maria Fitzpatrick in August of 2014 there are many ways to bring
back some of the chemicals from your short-term relationship into your long-term
relationship she suggests that you take on some of life's new challenges like getting married
having children buying a house or finding your dream career and this can bring back some of
those chemicals you may have lost so now that I've discussed what love is what happens
during a short-term relationship and what happens during a long-term relationship I hope you all
understand me a little bit better what is going on inside of you when you are falling in love so next
time you are considering using drugs maybe consider falling in love instead