Love is not a single enduring state..

Love is not like a response to a stimulus. It is not even a single enduring state, like being cold. 

It encompasses many things, including: not feeling in love at that moment; longing, indifference, delight; wanting to be kind, wanting to impress; worrying over the logistics of meetings; lust, awe, surprise, jealousy, anger; imagining conversations, events; imagining what the loved one is doing when one is not there; and so on.

 (The most sophisticated neural imaging, by the way, cannot distinguish between physical pain and the pain of social rejection: 

they seem to “light up” the same areas.) 

 

Peter Cheevers' short stories are published by Ether Books

http://catalog.etherbooks.com/Authors/1118  

PUBLISHED NAME	TITLE
	Not Even A Recall – Where’s That Revolver?
	Violence in Chichester? No, Never
	I Never Saw A Woman Look So Wistfully
	A Night On The Moon
	All Flesh Is Grass
	No Atheists In Foxholes
	The Rats' Somme

published by Ether Books, download  on Kindle 

Peter P. Cheevers' PhD available 

at: 

http://www.worldcat.org/title/subject-and-its-performance/oclc/500328126