Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy.

Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.

Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.

If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.

Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap.

Saliva has testosterone and estrogen. When you kiss, you're having a chemical experience.