Why do we need our feelings to be reciprocated?

-The science behind generating true love & altruistic acts.

Well I feel you can if you really want to & nothing could stop you once you accomplish complete self-realization(which would include becoming self-less too)

True love doesn’t need to boundaries or conditions.

I don’t think someone needs to love someone back in order to justify one of their love as true.

It is human tendency to remain bounded to the reward system of the brain.

The reward system is a group of neural structures responsible for incentive salience (i.e., "wanting" or desire), pleasure (i.e., "liking" or hedonic value), and positive reinforcement. Reward is the attractive and motivational property of a stimulus that induces appetitive behavior – also known as approach behavior – and consummatory behavior.

If you recall about all those things which you like doing, uses this very system.

If you heal a good song basically it is activating dopamine in your system which in turn is inducing a feeling of happiness within you which is the reward,now when you feel happy once hearing it-you wish to hear it again in order to get the reward again.Quite similar in this case.If someone is trying to say true love which basically means to fully understand another person’s suffering,be it physical or psycho-emotional or spiritual.Now the brain doesn’t understand any of these. It is focused on it’s own appetite. When you feel loved that induces a feeling of pleasure or self satisfaction in some form.

Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection (e.g:"I love my mother") to pleasure (e.g.:"I loved that meal"). It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment. It can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another". It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals.

Now if you closely observe each case- there is this reward system going on & the true love is not dependent on how others affect you but how on the very intense effect you have on yourself!How?Have you heard about crushes people have on others?The lovers perhaps don’t even get any sort of attention from their partners but feeds on the pleasure that is brought to them from the thoughts that generate from their own self!In case of true love the person justifying their actions or thoughts as true love is basically implying the amount of pleasure or satisfaction brought to them from themselves(e.g-”It was true love” or “I truly loved her”) or from others(“He/She truly loved me”) & when both says that it was true love for them -it would be because it induced the same sense of pleasure in both of them,provided they are not pretending.

Sources used-Wikipedia

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