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“Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be associated with romantic feelings. It signals that we are interested and excited, which is attracti...”
“The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.”
“Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.”
“Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.”
“I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.”
“I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.”
“Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.”
“Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.”
“People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.”
“When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.”
“Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.”
