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RE: Psychology Addict # 43 | The Corrosive Effect of Time on Love

in #psychology6 years ago (edited)

Hello @abigail-dantes

This is an incontrovertible fact about love and time. Though is quite a long one but i had to pick few lines that pick my attention.

Love exists in many ways. So much so that Leo Tolstoy pronounced that “there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts”. Still, with regard to couples, psychologists mostly categorize love into two types: ‘passionate’ and ‘companionate’. The former encompasses intense emotions such as lust, excitement, yearning and jealousy, while the latter is more often associated with milder emotions like commitment, closeness and attachment.

Now when you said;

passionate feelings of men go down at a slower rate than that of women.

How true is this?

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Hello @microlead :)

Thank you for taking the time to read and leave a comment!
I find interesting that you, as a man, find that statement truthful! Maybe Hatfield was onto something (despite that fact of not having her idea supported by evolutionary theorists :)).

Best.