You’ve all heard the stories of couples trying to ignore or resist the mate-bond. It isn’t patient and it isn’t gentle. It will force her to us and us to her. It will broadcast our thoughts at the most inappropriate moments. It will rip us from where we stand and drop us at her feet without warning—heedless of whether we’re in the middle of class or trying to sleep. It will overwhelm us with dreams of her and drive us all insane trying to make us give in. And those are only the first three side effects I can recall off the top of my head. There are dozens of them.”