Nerobiologists say that dopemin, adrenlin and norapenefren increase when two people get really smitten with each other. And then our body dopemin makes you feel euporic, while adrenelin and norapanefrin make your heart literally go pitter pat faster. So evidently, love lowers your seratonian levels, which these researchers say is common in people with obsessive compulsive disorders. That's a real mystery. People do change their minds all the time about their love relationships. I thought you were the one. I thoughtyou were my soul mate. Surprised, surprise. I must have adifferent soul mate, cause you ain't got no
Love! Romance! Intimate relationships! Marriage! Divorce! Remarriage! Clowns! This episode has it all. The wonderfully warm Dr. Benjamin Karney of the UCLA Marriage lab has been studying romance and intimate relationships for 20 years and sits down to chat about being single and the mechanisms behind finding a partner, what behaviors foster intimacy, why some couples stay together vs. splitting up, some bananas proposals, wedding budgets, how parenting affects marriage, historical problems with matrimony and his own experiences with marriage and divorce. These behaviors are also so applicable to friendships, work partnerships and as it turns out...professional clowns.
Dr. Ben Karney at the UCLA Marriage Lab
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