When they start to interact, they get more and more information about well they get along, the kind of things the other person enjoys etc. This is a fun process if you’re attracted to someone, and you can get more and more interested in them.
This applies equally to getting to know someone in a non-romantic context, and in fact fairly well describes my excitement at meeting someone who I think might be a potential friend. Why is it sometimes feelings of love instead of friendship?
(Note that this is in the context of not really understanding the difference between a friend-relationship and a romantic-relationship.)
This applies equally to getting to know someone in a non-romantic context, and in fact fairly well describes my excitement at meeting someone who I think might be a potential friend. Why is it sometimes feelings of love instead of friendship?
(Note that this is in the context of not really understanding the difference between a friend-relationship and a romantic-relationship.)
Could be just context and interpretation, which do make the psychological reality of the situation different.
I don’t think there’s a good answer to that apart from some mishmash of happenstance, pheromones, social context, and neurological variation.