Best quotes by Helen Fisher on Romantic

Checkout quotes by Helen Fisher on Romantic

• ‟ Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

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• ‟ Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

  - Helen Fisher
  

• ‟ Romantic love is an addiction.

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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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• ‟ 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 attractive to men.

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• ‟ When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.

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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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• ‟ 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.

  - Helen Fisher