Like Taking Candy From a Baby

Hazan and Shaver argue that adult romantic relationships, like infant-caregiver relationships, are attachments, and that romantic love is a property of the attachment behavioral system, as well as the motivational systems that give rise to caregiving and sexuality.

• both feel safe when the other is nearby and responsive
• both engage in close, intimate, bodily contact
• both feel insecure when the other is inaccessible
• both share discoveries with one another
• both play with one another's facial features and exhibit a mutual fascination and preoccupation with one another
• both engage in "baby talk"

Allow to me to explain if you haven't gotten it by now- the attachment that people feel when they get close to eachother is the same strong type of bond as an infant with his or her caregiver. See? People never outgrow a caregiver, they just fill in that spot with someone else that they want to spend the rest of their lives with. People are social creatures, and rely on each other for support. I found most interesting the way that people feel insecure when the other person is inaccessible. Maybe this is why when people break up they feel completely helpless when their "other half" is missing. What is love?...... Baby don't hurt me... don't hurt me.... no more. Ok, ok. Stopping.