MARRIAGE AND YOUR EMOTIONS

 

By  Pastor Sam Adeyemi | Proverbs 30: 18-19

 

 Human beings have the potential to experience extreme positive and negative emotions within the context of marriage. We have the capacity to feel love and hatred; pleasure and pain; joy and sadness; peace and anxiety; confidence and fear; birth and death of loved ones. These are strong emotions and many people are not prepared to accommodate these dimensions of emotions. Emotions are so strong; they shut down your capacity for reasoning. King Solomon compared a man who is in love to an eagle in the air, a snake moving on the rock and a ship on the sea; to an external observer, they do not have mapped out paths. Scientists have now helped us to understand falling in love better; they acknowledge that when a person falls in love, certain chemicals – dopamine and norepinephrine – are released in the brain. These are neurotransmitters which alter the way you feel and see things when they rush into the brain. They also have the ability to change the rate of one’s heartbeat. Interestingly, these are the same chemicals which are released in the brain when someone takes cocaine.