Love has many dimensions, all of them intense and powerful.  A parent’s love for a child.  That bond between soldiers in the trenches.  Siblings.  Close friends.  But there is a particular punch that happens with romantic love.  What biological and psychological factors play into romance, and how can writers create believable characters in a romantic situation?  In psychology, there are typically three concepts that come to play in romantic love:  Attachment, Sex, and Caregiving.  An individual can still have very strong feelings of love without all three of these, but in what is typically defined as romantic love, all must be present.  How do these factors relate to each other, and what truly makes up what we call romantic love? Continue reading →