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Why We Love: The Nature and
The reverse can also happen: as a man becomes more and more attached to his family, levels of testosterone can decline. In fact, at the birth of a child, expectant fathers experience a significant decline in levels of testosterone.66 Even when a man holds a baby, levels of testosterone decrease. This
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Por que amamos - a natureza e
El clima del amor es tan agradable. En efecto, cuando estamos enamorados, resplandecemos. También sentimos la angustia de la agonía y de la espera. El amor romántico es un ímpetu, un deseo, una necesidad, un impulso primigenio del apareamiento que a veces puede ser más poderoso que el hambre.
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Why Him? Why Her?:
I am large, I contain multitudes. -WALT WHITMAN
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Why We Love: The Nature and
some psychiatrists believe that exercise {aerobic or anaerobic} can be as effective in healing depression as psychotherapy or antidepressant drugs.14
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Why We Love: The Nature and
Take dopamine. Elevated levels of dopamine in the brain produce extremely focussed attention,2 as well as unwavering motivation and goal-directed behaviors.3 These are central characteristics of romantic love. Lovers intensely focus on the beloved, often to the exclusion of all around them. Indeed, they concentrate so relentlessly on the positive qualities of the adored one that they easily overlook his or her negative traits;4 they even dote on specific events and objects shared with this sweetheart.
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Why We Love: The Nature and
each is associated with different neurochemicals. Lust is associated primarily with the hormone testosterone in both men and women. Romantic love is linked with the natural stimulant dopamine and perhaps norepinephrine and serotonin. And feelings of male-female attachment are produced primarily by the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin. Moreover,
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Why We Love: The Nature and
Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often.
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of god.
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Why We Love: The Nature and
We need food. We need water. We need warmth. And the lover feels he/she needs the beloved. Plato had it right over two thousand years ago. The god of love "lives in a state of need."41
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Why We Love: The Nature and
Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me.
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Why We Love: The Nature and
Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words."
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