We made it so far together but then I lost you in the trees
Romantic love is a basic brain system, like fear and anger or disgust. We humans have evolved three distinct brain systems for mating and reproduction: the sex drive, romantic love, and feelings of deep attachment. People make the mistake of thinking that these are phases. They’re not phases, they’re brain systems, and they can operate in any combination and order. […]
I estimate the people I studied, on average, thought about their beloved about 85 percent of the time. […]
I looked at the demographics from the United Nations from 1947–2011 and across 80 cultures. People tend to divorce around the fourth year of marriage. […]
still { Catherine Deneuve in Jacques Demy’s Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, 1963 }
