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Why not? When did we diverge form other mammals in this regard?
The female menstrual cycle is unique to primates. I'm not sure how far this goes back and opened a question over at biology stackexchange.
But that's not everything. A human can get horny without feeling love. A human can feel love after chatting on a dating website and telling himself in his mind stories about how awesome it will be, to be with the other person.
While Bonobo's like having sex I doubt that they would be capable to fall in love like that. They ability to tell yourself that kind of story seems to be something very human and evolutionary recent.
Nature doesn't protect us from unilateraly falling in love through fantasizing about a person that isn't present.
Humans are not unique in that respect.
If you read that article on "Estrous cycle" you linked, it says "Humans have menstrual cycles instead of estrous cycles. [...] Unlike animals with estrous cycles, human females are sexually receptive throughout their cycles." Humans along with some other primates are unique in that they have menstrual cycles.