Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
Helen Fisher
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what you think.
After a man falls madly in love, he no longer cares how old she is.
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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