Love today is not what it was. Humans are built to love, but when factors are added in they break down and love does not work. Factors such as lust, hormones, jealousy, mistrust, and loose morals can affect a relationship and may break it or lead to unwanted consequences. Many in today’s society, are faced with relationship problems because of these factors and are unable to keep a relationship.
Humans have three primary emotional systems when it comes to love. These are mating, reproduction, and parenting. Each system plays an important role in how the person connects with another. Everyone is different, some only want sex, some want to marry one person and be with them forever. Lust plays one of the biggest roles. Lust is the sex drive or libido of the person. The sex drive can be …show more content…
Over time, a person has the inability to feel love for more than one person at a time. Once a person has become so attached to their spouse or partner, when they are apart, they may experience jealousy, fear of rejection, and separation anxiety. However, jealousy can throw off a relationship and it can show if two people are really attracted to each other. In William Shakespeare's Othello it states, “ O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger” (195). Othello is overcome by jealousy when he hears that his wife, Desdemona, is having an affair. However, this is not true, it is just a rumor started by someone outside of their relationship. Othello is so mad that he does not go to Desdemona to find out the truth, but he instead kills her for being “unfaithful.” When he later learns the truth, he is overcome by grief and takes his own life. Jealousy, as well as mistrust, caused their relationship to fall
Humans have three primary emotional systems when it comes to love. These are mating, reproduction, and parenting. Each system plays an important role in how the person connects with another. Everyone is different, some only want sex, some want to marry one person and be with them forever. Lust plays one of the biggest roles. Lust is the sex drive or libido of the person. The sex drive can be …show more content…
Over time, a person has the inability to feel love for more than one person at a time. Once a person has become so attached to their spouse or partner, when they are apart, they may experience jealousy, fear of rejection, and separation anxiety. However, jealousy can throw off a relationship and it can show if two people are really attracted to each other. In William Shakespeare's Othello it states, “ O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger” (195). Othello is overcome by jealousy when he hears that his wife, Desdemona, is having an affair. However, this is not true, it is just a rumor started by someone outside of their relationship. Othello is so mad that he does not go to Desdemona to find out the truth, but he instead kills her for being “unfaithful.” When he later learns the truth, he is overcome by grief and takes his own life. Jealousy, as well as mistrust, caused their relationship to fall