EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY People in love regularly exhibit signs of emotional dependency on their relationship, including possessiveness, jealousy, fear of rejection, and separation anxiety.
PLANNING A FUTURE Longing for emotional union with a beloved, seeking out ways to get closer and day-dreaming about a future together are also signs of someone in love.
According to an article by Harvard University, when serotonin levels begin to return to normal levels, the hormone oxytocin increases in the body.
FEELINGS OF EMPATHY People who are in love generally feel a powerful sense of empathy toward
their beloved, feeling the other person's pain as their own and being willing to sacrifice anything for the other person.
ALIGNING INTERESTS Falling in love can result in someone reordering their daily priorities to align with those of their beloved.
Fisher's studies, presented in 2013 at the "Being Human" conference, found that people are attracted to their opposites, at least their "brain-chemical" opposites.