We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.

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

Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.

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

There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again.

If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.

You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.