Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival. - Helen Fisher 1 Share Now -
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. - Helen Fisher 2 Share Now -
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love. - Helen Fisher 3 Share Now -
A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks. Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks. The fireworks can happen at any time and be maintained. - Helen Fisher 4 Share Now -
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm - it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug. - Helen Fisher 5 Share Now -
A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability. - Helen Fisher 6 Share Now -
Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate. - Helen Fisher 7 Share Now -
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage. - Helen Fisher 8 Share Now -
Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love. - Helen Fisher 9 Share Now -
Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets. - Helen Fisher 10 Share Now -
