Rekindling The Romance

Our recent trio of blog posts have dealt with romantic love from a variety of perspectives. One interesting insight is that it appears to be part of our evolutionary development (see Love: An Essential Part Of Our Being). A basic but crucial question applies to the...

First Comes Passion, Then Comes…

If we could only bottle the feelings associated with the early stages of a romantic relationship. My goodness, talk about a best-selling product. The reality is that excitement, as we noted recently (see Love? Or Infatuation?), is “associated with the hormones...

Love? Or Infatuation?

In a memorable scene from Disney’s 1942 film, Bambi, Friend Owl explains to the young deer what being “twitterpated” is all about: a feeling young lovers have that leaves them weak in the knees and in danger of losing their heads. As anyone who has been infatuated...

Love: An Essential Part Of Our Being

For centuries poets have written beautifully about both the ecstasy of love and the pain of love lost. “I love thee to the depth and breath and height my soul can reach,” writes Elizabeth Barrett Browning. On the flip side, Pablo Neruda laments, “Love is so short,...