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.
Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be associated with romantic feelings. It signals that... →
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... →
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 dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.
I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.
The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.
Isla Fisher
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
F. Scott Fitzgerald