ROME – Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It’s all part of falling passionately in love—and scientists now tell us the feeling won’t last more than a year.
passionate love fizzles after a year?
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Balah. I don’t agree at all. Passionate love is what you make of it. I bet most people are just too lazy to keep it passionate for more than a year!
First, the New York Times reported essentially the same story months ago– that brain scans of people newly in love showed different nerve cells firing more often than people in stable, loving, but also long-term relationships. The same neurons that generate excitement and passion also stimulate feelings of jealousy and insecurity, apparently, while the parts of the brain active in long-term relationships are associated with feelings of trust. Interesting.
Second, this seems like a blinding glimpse of the obvious: who does not know that new couples go at it like rabbits, while stable couples see the sparks mature into a steady flame? I mean, that stereotype about newlyweds didn’t come out of thin air.