When will I get over my breakup?
Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi
Breaking Up? Is It a Delusions?
The point of love, the reason why we have this emotional bonding attachment system, is to keep us together. The argument goes that human infants are so immature at birth, right? And because the human infant is born so immature and takes so many years before, like a child, can actually accumulate enough of its own calories to survive,. that you actually need both parents. We might also have evolved to be pretty careful about blowing it up. And so we are reluctant or conservative about break up decisions. I guess i'm just wondering whether an intrinsic part of being in love is to delude yourself. May be, in some way, yes.
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