When this happens, it negatively impacts long-term relationships because when we lose or move past the romantic stage of love, we often feel we have lost the love in the relationship. These other forms of love will supply the relationship with the friendship and the spiritually it needs to live, grow and sustain itself through life. They will also incorporate romance in a manner that feeds rather than drains intimacy. Love, particularly agape, aligns us with soul energy because more than a sentiment, it is a state of awareness. To enter into a state of love is to be present with soul.
Love also has a physical side.
The heart has 40 to 60 times the electrical impulse of the brain. What the heart experiences is communicated to every cell in your body. If you are upset, for example, your whole body feels it. According to Donna Willis, M.D., experiencing the feeling of love has a biochemical effect. When we do not experience love in our lives, our immune system is decreased which undermines our first line of defense against illness.