The 8 symptoms of falling in love that we have all experienced at one time or another.

These are the signals that the body sends us when the definitive attraction to a person is born.

Love is something that changes our lives, but that does not mean that we have a clear control over this feeling: it influences us, but we cannot influence it. When it comes, it comes. But it always lets us know through what we could call symptoms of love..

Although we do not know the logic that makes love appear, we can be aware, if we pay attention, to those early signals that our body sends us when we begin to feel something for someone. Knowing how to detect them helps us to be forewarned.

The main symptoms of falling in love

These are the typical signs that appear when the love towards another person is born.. These tell us about both physical and psychological processes, as we shall see.

1. The pulse quickens

The typical sign of attraction or, many times, infatuation. The more value we give to a person, the faster the Heart beats and, consequently, if there is infatuation involved, the rhythm rises a lot. There is a reason why the heart (or a very simplified and iconic version of it) is the symbol of love.

Why is this? At the sight of the loved one, our body is activated because it enters into a state of alertness to try to take voluntary control over all the try to take voluntary control of all movements and gestures.. The goal is, of course, to seduce the other person, or at least to keep him or her from running away in terror.

Even if it is in a half unconscious way, we know that a small detail in what we do can make the difference and decide whether we will spend many years of our life with that person or not.

2. Euphoria appears

This is also one of the typical symptoms of falling in love, and one of the most pleasurable and stimulating. The idea that this loved one exists makes us feel better in many ways, and they all come to us at the same time. For example, we feel less lonely because it gives us the sensation that someone understands us, and at the same time we imagine a new life.At the same time, we imagine a life full of shared projects that would not make sense to undertake alone.

3. Pupils dilate

Although we hardly notice it, when we are very attracted to someone, the pupils of our eyes dilate. This is to capture as many details as possible of what happens when the person we like is near. The idea is to react at the moment to adapt to any situation..

4. We start to fantasize about the future together.

Being in love can be overwhelming, because sometimes it leads us to a state of tension: we do not know if the possible relationship with that person will have a future or not, or if it will ever start. To calm this state of slight anxiety and uncertainty, we resort to a habit that is another of the symptoms of falling in love: imagining future situations in which that partner already exists and is consolidated. already exists and is consolidated. It is a kind of alternative reality in which we can take refuge so as not to always be worried about it.

5. Start adopting their way of speaking

Many times, when you have already started to talk to that person and you have been able to learn about some of his habits, we tend to adopt aspects of his way of speaking and incorporate them into our own. For example, words invented by them, expressions and even recurring jokes.

This is not so simply to have a strategy that allows us to be liked better, since these changes in speech can also appear when that person is not there (although to a lesser extent). What happens is simply that we modify our actions so much because of the involvement we have with the relationship that, without realizing it, we begin to imitate the other person. without realizing it, we begin to imitate the other person and, in part, we think like that person.

6. Loss of appetite

The relationship between appetite and falling in love is curious.

On the one hand, many people feel that, when the loved one is near, hunger does not exist; they do not feel the need to eat.

On the other hand, the anxiety of falling in love, if mismanaged, can lead to binge eating. But the latter only occurs in cases where the infatuation clashes with a feeling of inferiority and self-esteem problems that hinder the relationship. In addition, it is not a real appetite, but an emotional hunger, which leads to eating to compensate for psychological aspects.which leads to eating to compensate for psychological aspects.

7. Recurrent thoughts about that person

When we fall in love, we begin to see references to the loved one everywhere: in smells, in sounds, and even the face of some people reminds us of theirs (although it does not resemble anything).

What happens is that our memory system learns that the concept of that person is central and very important to us, and starts to make this connect with all kinds of ideas and sensations. In turn, each of these experiences causes us to think about it more often, which adds to its relevance.which adds relevance to their memory, creating a vicious circle.

8. We want to know more about her

When we fall in love, we use the information we know about that person to imagine more about them in an almost obsessive to imagine more about them in an almost obsessive way.. It is a kind of detective work that we do through our imagination.

For example, if their last name is the name of a town, we find out about that place, we wonder if that person has ever been there, if they have walked the streets and parks that we see in photographs on the Internet...