among its mysterious ways
Excerpt from NYTimes article that BPS sent my way, While You Were Sleeping:
IT WON'T LAST Falling madly in love significantly changes our body chemistry - but not for long. Researchers from Italy studied a group of people who had fallen in mad, passionate love in the past six months, comparing them with people in longer-term relationships and with single people. The group consumed with passion had more of a stimulating protein called nerve growth factor in their blood. The more intense the feelings of infatuation, the more nerve growth factor there was. But when these same lovers were tested a year later, the levels had dropped back down to normal. Someone should warn Brad and Angelina: their year is up.
posted by Goldie at 4:15 PM
3 Comments:
Love is a chemical reaction. Amazing how many people still refuse to accept this fact and continue searching for soul-mates, twin-souls, or basherts. Some people like explosions and firey displays; you will find them at parades and fireworks festivals.
Some of us like dependable, smooth, and comfortable relationships. That's more my style.
Umm..that should be 'fiery'.
Well, I like to think (hope?) that it's possible to have explosions and fiery displays that evolve into dependable, smooth, and comfortable relationships. But perhaps it's not, and that the very impracticality of some relationships is what makes them exciting (which might explain why affairs are often portrayed as extremely passionate).
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