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Helen Fisher Quotes: Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.
         

Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.


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Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.



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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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The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.



A world without love is a deadly place.

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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.

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.



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We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.



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Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'



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.

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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