Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

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

A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars.

We all have restlessness in long-term relationships.

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

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

It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.