Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.

It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.

The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.

Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.

There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.