25 Fascinating Love Facts

Love is mysterious, fascinating, and when you find it with the right person, there's nothing better. Here are 25 surprising love facts to puzzle over and embrace. Love is a many-splendored thing … and a very surprising thing, too. As if you needed proof of that, here are 25 funny little facts about love. Study them, scratch your head over them, and share them with someone you fancy. 1. Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't. 2. People are more likely to tilt their heads to the right when kissing instead of the left (65 percent of people go to the right!) 3. When it comes to doing the deed early in the relationship, 78 percent of women would decline an intimate rendezvous if they had not shaved their legs or underarms. 4. Feminist women are more likely than other females to be in a romantic relationship. 5. Two-thirds of people report that they fall in love with someone they've known for some time vs. someone that they just met. 6. There's a reason why office romances occur: The single biggest predictor of love is proximity. 7. Falling in love can induce a calming effect on the body and mind and raises levels of nerve growth factor for about a year, which helps to restore the nervous system and improves the lover's memory. 8. Love can also exert the same stress on your body as deep fear. You see the same physiological responses — pupil dilation, sweaty palms, and increased heart rate. 9. Brain scans show that people who view photos of a beloved experience an activation of the caudate — the part of the brain involving cravings. 10. The women of the Tiwi tribe in the South Pacific are married at birth. 11. The "Love Detector" service from Korean cell phone operator KTF uses technology that is supposed to analyze voice patterns to see if a lover is speaking honestly and with affection. Users later receive an analysis of the conversation delivered through text message that breaks down the amount of affection, surprise, concentration and honesty of the other speaker. 12. Eleven percent of women have gone online and done research on a person they were dating or were about to meet, versus seven percent of men. 13. Couples' personalities converge over time to make partners more and more similar. 14. The oldest known love song was written 4,000 years ago and comes from an area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. 15. The tradition of the diamond engagement ring comes from Archduke Maximillian of Austria who, in the 15th century, gave a diamond ring to his fiancée, Mary of Burgundy. 16. Forty-three percent of women prefer their partners never sign "love" to a card unless they are ready for commitment. 17. People who are newly in love produce decreased levels of the hormone serotonin — as low as levels seen in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Perhaps that's why it's so easy to feel obsessed when you're smitten. 18. Philadelphia International Airport finished as the No. 1 best airport for making a love connection, according to an online survey. 19. According to mathematical theory, we should date a dozen people before choosing a long-term partner; that provides the best chance that you'll make a love match. 20. A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex. 21. Every Valentine's Day, Verona, the Italian city where Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet took place, receives around 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet. 21. When we get dumped, for a period of time we love the person who rejected us even more, says Dr. Helen Fisher of Rutgers University and author of Why We Love. The brain regions that lit up when we were in a happy union continue to be active. 22. People telling the story of how they fell in love overwhelmingly believe the process is out of their control. 23. Familiarity breeds comfort and closeness … and romance. 24. One in five long-term love relationships began with one or both partners being involved with others. 25. OK, this one may not surprise you, but we had to share it: Having a romantic relationship makes both genders happier. The stronger the commitment, the greater the happiness! BY:Laura Schaefer(Author of Man with Farm Seeks Woman with Tractor)

My Dogs,Love of mylife

I know to most or some of you might find it weird,strange or over-acting but what if I tell you that I would rather stay at home and be with my dogs?What will your reaction gonna be?Laugh?Raise your eyebRow? I have been a dog lover since I was very small,when I was 4 yrs old,I had my very first puppy given by our neighbor,the puppy didn't stay long with us for the reason I can't remember anymore.Growing up,I have always this desire to have my own dog,to sleep with me and play with but my family can't afford to have an expensive dogs,I remember my mom saying,why we will buy an expensive puppy?,it is just a waste of money and time.Instead of buying a puppy why we don't don't buy rice or the neccessary things that we need.So i never asked again. To make the story short,I never really let go of wishing and dreaming to have a very pretty dog.Now,I don't have just one dog but four.The golden Retrievers are my first dogs when I arrived in Ca,A gift for making up my mind to come over here.Three years later,I got my dream dog,a toy poodle and I named her Roxy.She slept beside me and a very smart,high-tempred and opinionated puppy,Roxy is 4yrs old now.She is like my daughter and so dependent on me.Last 2007,Feb 3 to be exact.I got Tito a shih tzu,well he is very loving,so sweet and a playful one.For me they are part of my life not as my pets but family. They gave so much joy and happiness to me personally,without them,i don't know how my life turned-out.I don't like to party and don't like clubbing,I don't date that much as well so they are pivot part in my daily life.

Love is....................

"Love is always a good thing no matter how much it hurts. Even after it's over, even through the pain, anyone who has ever really loved will tell you that they never regretted a second of it, no matter how much it hurt in the end. And if you tell me differently, I will tell you that you were not truly in love." ~April Nizlek "I loved you, it's not that I fell out of love because that is impossible. I just couldn't handle the heartache anymore. It's not that I don't love you - it's that I can't." "In a perfect world, when he's with her, he would be wishing he was with me; when he looked at her, he would be looking at me; when he smiled at her, his smile would be for me; when he thought about someone, he would be thinking about me. In a perfect world, he would realize that she wasn't the one he was supposed to be with and I would still be standing here waiting for him still when he finally knows this. But this isn't a perfect world and people do get hurt, you smile when you feel like crying, you act like you're okay when you're falling apart inside and you let it go. You move on, because there's nothing else you can do." "Promise me you won't ever forget us, and everything we tried to be. Don't forget the laughter and the nights when we both just needed to be held. Don't forget how you felt when you said you loved me, and don't forget the looking into my eyes because I knew you meant it. Don't forget that I'll always love you, even if I don't need you the way that I used to. If I thought that you would ever forget it all... I would never leave." "I don't regret anything I did, because if things had happened differently then I wouldn't have met you, I wouldn't have fallen in love with you, and I wouldn't have gotten over you." "So I'm sorry that I can't go on with you. And tonight may be a night I'll regret, but I'm already somebody's lover. He just hasn't found me yet". "We look at each other differently, the spark is fading fast. It hurts to be without you, yet I just put on a smile and keep walking." "I'm trying to get over you, but please tell me another way, because this one isn't working." "I'm failing to want to notice that I'm gonna be okay without you." "You don't know how hard it is to get over you when every time I see you my heart begins to smile." "You made me cry, you told me lies, but I can't stand to say good-bye." "The most ironic thing of all is that I think this will be the most difficult break up I will ever go through, and we never even went out." "And so now I've finally gotten the courage to give up and let go of you. And no, I haven't moved on to another guy; I've just moved on." "You have to understand that we can't be. You've hurt me too much, but I will never hold any bitterness toward you. You were a special part of my life". "Take back that sad word good-bye. Bring back the joy to my life. Don't leave me here with these tears come and kiss this pain away. I can't forget the day you left, time is so unkind. And life is so cruel without you here beside me." ~Toni Braxton "My life is about change. I change every day. I change my mind, and sometimes even my heart. But the one thing that will never change is the way I feel for you." "I'll walk away from you now, and I'll never look back. You'll pretend to be sad, so maybe I'll come back, but when I don't, you'll live. You won't hurt, you won't cry, so don't try to make me think I'm affecting your life at all." ~Michelle Burns "I've never had feelings this strong for someone in my whole life, and probably never will. And the fact that I just have to walk away from it hurts me more than you will ever know." "I told you I'd never say good-bye, now I'm slipping on the tears you made me cry. Why does it come as a surprise? To think I was so naive. Maybe it didn't mean so much to you, but it meant everything to me." ~Nine Inch Nails "Somehow, the conversation mentioned your name, and someone asked if I knew you. Looking away, I thought of all the times we had together, sharing laughter, tears, jokes, and tons more, and then with out an explanation you were gone. I looked to where they were waiting for an answer, and then said softly 'once... I thought I did.'" "As I watched you walk away, I watched every dream I had never dreamed, I saw every wish that was yet to come true, I felt every ounce of love in my heart, I knew it all when I saw you walk away... but I know you knew it too, because you took all of me with you." "You are my everything... the reason I wake up in the morning. Just the thought of you brings a smile to my face that can last for days. The sound of your voice brings chills throughout my body. You make me the happiest that I have ever been. And to you I am only a friend." "Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love, but rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along." "You wanna know why you can't be serious with me? Because being serious with me would be admitting to yourself, me and everyone else that you can really like me more than a friend." ~Allison Mosher "How can you simply be friends with someone when every time you look at them, you're thinking about how much more you really want?" ~Dawson's Creek "It's not that I don't know, it's just that you wouldn't understand if I told you." "When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough." ~Maurice Maeterlinck "She puts you through hell, yet you always run back to her. When will you realize she's not the one for you?" "I love you, okay? Is that so bad? I love you and she doesn't- she never did. Yet, you love her and not me. What's wrong with this picture?" ~Melissa Rokyta "I can't understand how you can throw what we had away. You said it meant something to you, but I guess I always was a little naive." ~Melissa Rokyta "Jealousy is a funny thing. I never considered myself a jealous person but you're bringing out traits in myself I never knew. The way she has you -that makes me jealous. The way you hug her -that makes me jealous. The way you love and kiss her -that makes me jealous." "Sometimes I wake up crying at night and sometimes I scream out your name. What right does she have to steal your heart away when for so long you were mine? I remember when you were mine." ~ "You know that we have something special. I saw it in your eyes last night when I told you how much you had hurt me. I saw all our memories flash through your mind. I saw how much it hurt you to know you hurt me. I saw how much you love me; you didn't need to say a word." ~Melissa Rokyta "I'd much rather be your lover than your friend, but I'd much rather be your friend than your nobody." ~Unknown "Sometimes the tears just flow so endlessly from my eyes, and you are the only one who could stop them." ~Ines Lopes "Why is that sometimes when I see you, it makes my whole day better, but other times when I see you it brings tears to my eyes?" ~Ines Lopes "Maybe I was just a stepping stone for you to get to that point in your life where you'd figure out what you wanted, or didn't want. So to prove to you that I love you and all I want is for you to be happy, I'll walk away." "As long as you're happy, I'll deal with the consequences." ~Megan Dillion "I hate it every time you leave me, but I love the part when you turn around and smile on your way out the door." "It hurts to see all these couples everywhere. Holding hands, kissing or even just looking at each other with this burning light in their eyes. It's so wonderful, but makes me so jealous at the same time, because all the things they have I want with you." ~Ines Lopes "I'm especially reminded that we should be together when we're walking down the hall and people smile at us with this look of 'Awww' in their eyes - but they don't know." ~Ines Lopes "All we could do was close our eyes, and wish that the slow song would never end." ~The Wonder Years "Giving someone all your love is not an assurance that they'll love you back." "I need someone to ease my mind, but sometimes a someone is hard to find." ~Smashing Pumpkins "Love hurts when you know you've hurt the person that means the world to you". "I want you to know that I don't regret a single moment I spent on you." "I don't know what it is really, but sometimes it takes everything in me to not reach out and run my fingers through your hair or turn around and hug you when you are least expecting it." "Late at night, talking to you until early one morning, I can tell you things I tell no one else, with the comfort of the dark. I love the way you whisper, and the way you laugh. I'll just hope for you until you want to be mine." "The hardest thing I'll ever do is walk away still loving you." "The heart that can no longer love passionately must with fury hate." ~Jean Racine "There's no love like a lost love, and no pain like a broken heart." ~Ben Harper "Hearts will never be made practical until they are made unbreakable." ~Wizard of Oz "I always said I'd never cry over you, but it's hard to hold back tears when your fears come true." ~ "To continue loving somebody even though there's no chance of that love ever thriving - that's romance." "I am always trying to make you happy, but why does it hurt so much when someone else does?" "I know as long as you are happy I can get through this, but it still kills me to see you with her. Not because she is perfect for you, not because she makes you smile, not because she is what you need, but because I know that she deserves you more than I do, and that pain is indescribable." ~Kate Russell "I don't understand how you can be so heartless, considering that you have mine." "It hurts to know that you don't love me and you never did, but it hurts even more knowing that I have to be the one to stop coming back. I can't be around you if all it does is cause me pain, and I know you don't have that pain, which makes mine even worse." "You're in love. That's the way it should be, because I want you to be happy. You're in love and I know that you're not in love with me." ~Wilson Philips "Finally, I see that my happiness doesn't mean having you. My happiness comes from your happiness. And if you can be happy without me, then I can be happy without you. "There's no way to explain, but all the pleasure is worth all the pain." ~LeAnn Rimes "The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves." ~Ralph W. Sockman "One who loves more is speechless when the one they love leaves them, rather than begging please." "It hurts to see you walk away. For admit it or not, you were an important part of my life and the time we shared will forever be a part of me. So even though I realize that it was never meant to be, still, it hurts." "When these days are gone, when all the love we gave to each other slowly fades away, when your beautiful smile is only here as a dream, and when the words 'I love you' are scripts of the past, I will always have the memories that were once moments, and I will always know that no matter what, I got the chance to be loved by you." ~ "My mind tells me to give up on love, but my heart won't let me." "If I told you tonight that I loved you, would you walk my way? Would you say lies that I wanted to hear if I told you tonight that I need you? Would you break my heart? Would you start wearing me down again?" "If I told you tonight I was leaving, would you call my name, take the blame, turn it all around again cause you know I love you and it's worth the heart ache?" "I sometimes wish I could be like you, being able to get so close to people who you really have no intention of being close to. Letting people get so close to you, only to push them away. But then I remember I could never be like you, I have a heart." "Everyday I wish I had you, but I thank God that at least you're my friend "It's not because I ever loved him or because he loved me. It's because it was my first romance, my first imagination of love." "Sometimes I want someone to just hold me when I need it. Not a hug, but just hold me, you know? I need someone to actually love me for once in my life." "Everyone has at least five dreams every night. That's thirty billion dreams. One of them has got to be about me."

What hurts?

**letting go of the person you've just learned to love **reminiscing the good times you shared together **shielding your heart to love somebody **trying to hide what you really feel **trying to hide the tears that involuntarily fall from your eyes *loving a person too much **giving up of someone you never thought of giving up **having the right love at the wrong time **taking the risk to fall inlove again **hiding your relationship from someone else **controlling your feelings to avoid hurting a friend **thinking of him every waking and sleeping moment knowing all the while that he never even thinks single thought of you... :: letting go, because everytime you see the person, you only fall deeper :: holding back only to find out when it's too late, you both felt the same way, but were only scared to lose each other so much that you didn't let the feelings out :: falling inlove with someone you didnt mean to fall inlove with :: finding the perfect man...with only one prob....he doesnt love you... :: helping the one you love court your friend :: seeing the one you love crying for someone else :: the waiting also hurts like hell :: having to hear "... I've met someone" :: agreeing to his wish to 'just be friends'. :: asking his freedom back bcoz 'he'd be happier with her' :: asking u to 'forget that everything happened'and be 'normal' friends again. :: hearing that u're treated as a little sister. :: sharing his future plans for the girl with you. :: u stopped being friends bcoz her bf/gf asked her/him to. :: being denied in front of people. :: telling u lies where he'd been when actually, he was with a 'new friend' or an 'old flame'! :: she told u she'd be leaving u to return to her ex (d one she left 4 u!) :: breaking someone's heart :: fighting for that one thing that would make you happy :: that is, holding on to a person who can not guarantee you his/her commitment unless he/she fixedhimself/herself...then, you are left hanging for the moment...then he/she says, time will tell...but you still decided to hope in him/her and trust him/her :: PRETENDING you're OK when inside you're dying... :: PRETENDING to be strong.... and RECOGNIZING your weakness :: lying in bed each night, thinking of that special person you can never have... :: being with someone you can't actually love... :: pretending you don't love a person whom you actually love... :: being in love... :: letting go even if you really don't want to... having no right to say you are hurting, because it was your decision :: seeing the person you love hurt because of you... and not being able to help that person... :: having the courage to say I LOVE YOU to the person you love and finding out afterwards that things willnever be the same again when he/she doesnt treat you with the same closeness as before :: having to face the fact that someone is capable of completely destroying the wall that you have set foryourself, leaving you weak and vulnerable :: admitting that you love someone despite her/his imperfections :: finding out that the more you try to hate her/him, the more you end up loving her/him,perhaps even more than before... :: realizing how stupid your mistakes were that led to your break-up. :: the thought that this girl/guy, used to really love you and you loved her/him as well but you didn'tgive enough and she/he gave up on you :: Sharing the one you love with SOMEBODY else....." :: making a promise....and realizing that when the time has come for that promise to bedelivered....the commitment is no longer there... :: the hardest thing about love - believing it exists. After you've been hurt......learn to forgive...learn to trust and love again **

Mr.nice guy no more

I had a crush on this guy since i was young,he was the brother of my bestfriend.He is all i wanted in a guy.Smart,responsible,funny and goodlooking enough.I was really hopin that one day he will noticed me..and then it happened when i was in college...asked me if i have a bf and at that time i was madly inlove with this guy so i said yes and i thought that was the end of my hope. To make the story short,when he left for Bahrain,,he was a Civil Engineer graduate.He called me and asked if we could have dinner and i said yes,( i was already single at that time)and at that moment i am scheduled to leave the Philippines and come here in USA....without any further explaination he confessed his love to me and i was happy and i said yes and the relationship continued in a long distance kind of relationship. I really thought that ours will survive knowing he made plan for our future..but just recently i found out that he has a gf and the sad part is he never even bother to say goodbye to me.I am not really mad at him for i can't give what he wants...I am not yet ready to settle down but i think i deserve to know that we are done... I thought he is my Mr.Nice guy,but i am wrong for he is Mr.nice guy no more.