"Hugs drive oxycotcin production.
Laugther increases the dopamine needed for energy, focus and motivation. And play is really good for brain growth.
Love is deeply biological. It pervades every aspect of our lives and has a profound effect on our mental and physical state. Without loving relationships, humans fail to flourish, even if all of their other basic needs are met.
As such, love is clearly not 'just' an emotion; it is a biological process that is both dynamic and bidirectional in several dimensions. Social interactions between individuals, for example, trigger cognitive and physiological processes that influence emotional and mental states(...)" (@neurohacker)
"Love matters, attachment matters, sex matters. It matters on a fundamental, biological, evolutionary perspective." (Helen Fisher, Ph.D.)
now answering your question, yes, but it was long time ago, and I do miss that.
Hard to top that feeling.
yes.
I'm a woman and the only reason I've ever been in relationships is because someone approached me first.
You do have to put yourself out there & talk to people & when you get along with someone ask them out
this is actually good advice.
I'm a man and the only girls I ever dated were girls who approached me too.
I guess approaching someone does help.
Guys with poor social skills, who never talk to anybody, who can't interact etc are going to have lower chances of finding a partner.
it's not that being social fixes everything and instantly makes you rich, beautiful, tall and confident, but it helps.
I have used online tools as a "walking stick" or to compensate for the fact that I don't have the ability to talk to people in real life, I managed to arrange dates in the past and it worked to some point, but this is not ideal. ideally I should just work on myself to learn how to interact with people and groups.
women are people, and if I don't interact to any people in real life, I can't expect to meet a lover.