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- What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not…
- When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
- Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
- For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.
- Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.
- Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.
- When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.
- You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy,…
- A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally…
- When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking…
- Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they…
- 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.…
- You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood…
- Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido.
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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