For humans, falling in love is like putting a gun to your head. You’re lured into a relationship, enjoy its pleasures, and then, over time, those pleasures fade and compulsion takes over. “It is a quite similar situation, you know, to when a person at first has the high feeling in a relationship, the CRF is silent, and the dopamine reward is taking over,” Bosch says. “You feel high. Everything is cool. Everything is nice. Then, after a while, nature makes sure you still want to stay with a partner. And this system makes you feel sick as soon as you leave the mate. This is the idea of the whole
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