Love

To think of the origins and primary functions of love as simply an adaptive technique for bonding makes the sustenance in the interest of gene evolution and is very disheartening. Just as the view of the swelling, overwhelming of the senses that can sometimes be caused would be reduced to the physiochemical reactions that are output by our brain. Those are a flattened approach to issues that are more complex than these explanations give way to.
I would side more with the opinions held by Edward O. Wilson. He, as I, allow this factual basis and chain of reactions to exist while layering upon them a complex and compatible truth. The recognition that these emotions and techniques were chosen and favored by our gene pool. That our lineage allows for infinite beauty to be a possible functioning facets of our life. That an organs function does not debase our reality. We should be appreciative that our brains are wired in this way and not be neglectful of it.