::sigh::

I'll post this again.

"Romantic love is born out of the evolutionary success of pair bonding as a reproductive strategy. Our brains have evolved to feel pleasure in sexual bonding and discomfort at seperation. ---

The mechanism may be similar to addiction: oxytocin is closely linked to endorphins - opiated like brain chemicals - and the agitation typically felt by lovers when they are seperated from the ones they adore may in part be due to their desire to push up their oxytocin level. ---

Looked at coldly, romantic love is a chemically induced form of madness and a terrible basis for social organization, as the divorce in the western world demonstrates."

- Rita Carter
Mapping the Mind