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Mar 10 2011: At the base of romantic love is attachment—a primitive neurological bond like that between mother and child, designed for species survival. [view in context] 3158
Mar 10 2011: Attachment is what makes lovers long for each other when they are apart. It's literally an addiction, using the same neural pathways. 3159
Mar 10 2011: Two people can despise each other, be totally incompatible and still be neurologically attached and unable to pull away. 3160
Mar 10 2011: Attachment is more than sexual attraction. It's anxiety and depression when we can't be together. Sometimes anger and violence. 3161
Mar 10 2011: Human child rearing is a huge undertaking requiring (in nature) two dedicated parents. Something powerful must hold them together. 3162
Mar 10 2011: As perfidious as men may be, our existence proves that they usually come back to the nest, bearing food. 3163
Mar 10 2011: The magic of love is the falling in. The poison of it is not being able to climb out even when you know it isn't working. 3164
Mar 10 2011: The pain of withdrawing from love is just as great as the pleasure falling in. 3165
Mar 10 2011: In the movies, boy meets girl; they overcome some difficulties, fall in love, kiss, end of movie. But that's not really the end of conflict. 3166
Mar 10 2011: The hazard of love is when the primitive attachments conflict with the intellect. Then people resort to faith and magic to bolster belief. 3167
Mar 10 2011: If you can't express your attachment with love and tenderness, you'll do it with hate, aggression and the quest for revenge. 3168
Mar 10 2011: Divorce is so nasty because although everything about the relationship has collapsed, primitive attachment may still be present. 3169
Mar 10 2011: Attachment is a poor matchmaker, setting us up with people who aren't appropriate for us. We can't neglect the advice of intellect. 3170
Mar 10 2011: The test of a romantic relationship: If you take away sexual attraction and attachment, would you have anything in common? 3171
Mar 10 2011: #### End. This has been a one-hour essay from the Bad Dalai Lama: "Romantic Attachment" 3172
Mar 10 2011: Our one-page essay from 2008: "SEX FRAUD!" http://kilroycafe.com/ideas/sexfraud - How sex deceives you. 3173
Mar 10 2011: "The human sex drive is certainly a powerful force—when denied—but the promises it makes are illusory and unfulfillable." {ibid} 3174
Mar 10 2011: Our 2006 essay: "The Problems of Attachment" http://www.familycourtchronicles.com/philosophy/attachment 3175
Mar 10 2011: Sex and drugs are virtually identical to the brain, except sex has a stopping mechanism and drugs don't. 3176
Mar 10 2011: Men blame women for the failure of love and vice-versa, but, honestly, in what other relationship do you have such unrealistic expectations? 3177
Mar 10 2011: RT @jasminesays: @BadDalaiLama the result of exploring sex and drugs to their outer limits feels identical but brings opposite results ( ... 3178
Mar 10 2011: RT @mostlegendary: @BadDalaiLama bollocks, drugs have a stopping mechanism, you can't continue after death. :p 3179
Mar 10 2011: Every celebrity wedding is a goldmine for the tabloids, not just for the event itself but for the celebrity divorce that inevitably follows. [view in context]
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