Helen Fisher Romantic Love Quotations

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.

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.

Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.

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.

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.

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

Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.

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 not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.

There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this "mortal coil."

That "ol' black magic" is a fickle force. The chemistry of romantic love can trigger the chemistry of sexual desire and the fuel of sexual desire can trigger the fuel of romance. This is why it is dangerous to copulate with someone with whom you don't wish to become involved. Although you intend to have casual sex, you might just fall in love.

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

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