Romantic love is an addiction.
From Helen Fisher
Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.
People kill for love. They die for love.
You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems.
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'
A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.
Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.
Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.
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