When you’re in the first stages of attraction (love, lust, or whatever you want to call it), you’re experiencing a cascade of hormones that induce a state that psychologists called limerence. You may not know the word, but you know the feeling. It’s falling in love, it’s what makes you think about the woman all the time. It’s what makes you able to go without sleep and without food. It induces feelings of euphoria and ecstasy. It makes life more erotic and thrilling and beautiful.