Romantic love is an addiction.

The brain system for romantic love is associated with intense energy, focused energy, obsessive things - a host of characteristics that you can feel not just toward a mating sweetheart, ... there's every reason to think that girls can fall in love with other girls without feeling sexual towards them, without the intention to marry them.

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.

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

Romantic love is deeply embedded in the architecture and chemistry of the human brain, ... Why We Love.

Romantic love is one of the most powerful of all human experiences. It is definitely more powerful than the sex drive.