I've always been taught that an exothermic dissolution means that the forming of solute-solvent bonds releases more energy than the energy consumed to break solute-solute bonds and solvent-solvent bonds. However, if the attraction that occurs between solute and solvent particles are mainly based off of intermolecular forces, why would the energy released when it is formed manage to exceed the breaking of the comparably stronger intramolecular bonds between solute-solute particles?