Helen Fisher Quotes About Happiness
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Romantic love is an addiction.
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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.
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Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
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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.
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Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
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Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
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