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Top 5 Facts about Falling in Love


you can’t put a price on love but you
can condense it down into a six minute
video what do you know about women
anyway welcome to watchmojo.com it we’re
counting down the five most charming
facts about falling in love she was my
whole life
now she’s she’s gone so get comfortable
because we’re about to whisper some
sweet factual nothings interiors to rely
sometimes again look at the post number
five humans are hard-wired to break up
and move on it’s not you at all of
course it’s me you can’t say that you’re
breaking up with me it’s not it’s me I
don’t like you and you had your heart
broken lately does it make you feel
better to know that evolution has helped
prepare you to recover is this a trick
no pure anthropological research well
researchers have begun making claims
that humans are evolutionarily
conditioned to cope with the break-up
and find a new partner
where’d it tick that means I’m single
again Oh B hey from an evolutionary
standpoint mate ejection as scientists
call it is sometimes necessary like for
instance if your caveman boyfriend takes
the spirit of the knee and can no longer
hunt for you
you’re gonna want to find a new Barney
to Betty up too so you can get your
bamm-bamm on how are you feeling great I
never felt better in my life so don’t
worry you’re going to get over your
heartache after all you’ve had a long
string of ancestors that got kicked to
the curb – yeah you make me laugh
but that’s not enough I’m an
old-fashioned kind of girl I need a man
who can protect me and take care of me
number four chemically there are three
phases to love Wow yeah well there’s
just some quantum mechanics with a
little string theory doodling around the
edges love is wild love is blind
love is formulaic imagine John Watson
thinks love is a mystery to me but the
chemistry is incredibly simple according
to biological anthropologist Helen
Fisher there is a series of overlapping
stages humans go through when it comes
to love
starting with lust at this first phase
people get the hormone driven instinct
that tumbles them into desire I’m in
love with her Oh fine you’re in love
with her have you ever actually met her
Oh
can you introduce me this is followed by
the attraction phase wherein the
neurotransmitters adrenaline serotonin
and dopamine leave you feeling excited
delighted and kind of obsessed what I’m
in love with her finally comes the
attachment phase when endorphins
vasopressin and oxytocin enveloped the
body giving that cozy confirmation that
you’re in a safe comfortable
relationship Oh shucks
what number three being in love and
being addicted are similar I’ve also
come to believe that romantic love is an
addiction a perfectly wonderful
addiction when it’s going well and a
perfectly horrible addiction when it’s
going poorly
Helen Fisher ladies has some smart stuff
for example she says that being in love
has the three main characteristics of
addiction you build up a tolerance
whereby you need to get more and more of
this person you go through painful
withdrawal or heartache when you can’t
get your fix
and finally there’s relapse in the form
of on-again off-again relationships you
walk out that door and we’re done you’re
never gonna hear my voice again I should
call her no that’s not just theoretical
either love particularly that second
phase of it activates the same pleasure
centers in your brain that say a hit of
cocaine might number two eyes really are
the windows to the heart look at my eyes
falling in love can be as easy as eye
contact
experiments are often held wearing
complete strangers have to stare into
one another’s eyes for four to five
minutes by the end of the test
most experimenting admit that they have
gained some emotional attraction to
their assigned partner and in many cases
the two have begun a relationship feel
like you can’t not see each other I walk
away and I let’s go have a trip yes to
meet you eyes also have a habit of
giving the whole game away when looking
at a subject of your affection your
pupils dilate even if it’s just for a
split second so you might want to wear
some shades if you want to keep up that
tough-guy exterior
no I’m not number one meeting in
dangerous places can increase the
chances of attraction now we all know
that every classic action flick ends the
same way
our heroes lovingly embraced after a
life-or-death situation
you didn’t leave me didn’t have anywhere
to be just an but as cliche as that
might be there’s actually some
scientific basis behind it
psychologist and author Richard Robinson
says that exciting dangerous feeling
things like riding on a roller coaster
produce phenylethylamine a hormone that
creates a sort of love like euphoria
other researchers have found that danger
also creates adrenaline and dopamine
which we already know are involved in
the falling in-love process my name is
Pussy Galore I must be dreaming so
amusement parks or horror movies can be
good first-aid settings or you could
just find a dark alley somewhere and see
where the night takes you I’ve heard
relationships based on intense
experiences never work
we’ll have to base it on sex ed what do
you think is being in love really an
addiction no it’s not until next time
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