We talk about the feeling of chemistry, butterflies in the stomach and reaching that point when you check his / her Instagram regularly. The question arises: How long could it take people to actually fall in love?

Scientifically speaking, it is an incredibly difficult question to get an answer. Even experts cannot set an exact deadline for these things. is a rare area where scientists across disciplines agree: There is no set number of days, years, or seasons to fall in love with.

"We want a simple answer, but it's more nuanced than that. I think it varies based on different people, different contexts, different ways of meeting each other. So there are a lot of individual differences in people who are in a relationship that can affect how long you have to fall in love with another person, ”says Prof. Saeideh Heshmati, a positive development psychologist.

Dr. Sandra Langeslag, a behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Missouri, says that although we can measure different levels of love in couples over time, it is difficult to determine when these feelings begin to form.

"We can observe changes in love over time. Although we do not have a strong number, but the butterflies in the stomach, they disappear. "This can take place in attachment - and there is evidence that the relationship is declining over decades and married couples," she added.

Source: BBC Science Focus