Tag Archives: Love and Marriage

Valentines Day: Yet Another Day Of The Year to Act With Love

Happy Valentines Day! For a surprising history of this day of love click here. But what do we moderns do with a day like this? I guess it’s easy to get cynical about the $18.5 billion that the economic engines … Continue reading

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Do Love and Marriage really go together like a Horse and Carriage?

In her book, Why We Love, Helen Fisher describes the roles of the neurochemicals dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin in impelling us toward relationship, and the chemicals vasopressin and oxytocin in maintaining our attachment bonds. Dopamine, Fisher reports, helps us to … Continue reading

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