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" As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew. "

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" Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together. "

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" Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions. "

" There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what you think. "

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" Women are very attracted to a low voice because it's linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that men had very good spacial skills and would have been very good at hunting and finding their way back home. "

" You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with. "

" I have always been interested in how you can walk into a room and there will be 40 people there and you are immediately drawn to one. "

" We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes. "

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

" The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted. "

" More and more of us live segmented, compartmentalized lives. This isn't natural. For millions of years, our forebears knew everyone around them and everyone knew them. "

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" Every time you cuddle with your children, you're likely to be driving down your testosterone. "

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

" Once you fall for someone, their smell can be a powerful thing. Women will wear their boyfriends' T-shirts, and throughout tales in history men have held on to their lover's handkerchief. "

" 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. "

" Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage. "

" Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness or bedhead, since it shows you're carefree and relaxed. "

Helen Fisher

You

" I think you will find that with divorce will come happier remarriages. "

" My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed. "

Helen Fisher

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You

" There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again. "

" You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up. "

" When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue. "

" People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love. "

" There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance. "

" I was married and divorced at 23. "

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" Men fall in love faster than, and just as often as, women. "

" For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed. "

" We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length. "

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

" For men, being too put-together implies femininity. "

" Women like signs of money and education - things that indicate that not only is this guy going to have some resources, but he's also willing to share them. "

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