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How long is love?

How long does love last? The eternal question of those who are in love.Does love last for a lifetime? Does it last 2, 4, 7 years?

How long does love last for us?

According to anthropologist Helen Fisher love comes to last for some 4 years .Just that first period of infatuation in which the sexual attraction is very important and in which at the end, touching the 4 years, there is offspring., then, in the second phase which is the carino , in which together we raise and educate, and in which that initial sensation fades away.Finally, comes the desire for separation.And, According to this anthropologist, this process is natural, since our organism cannot bear for a long time the ferris wheel of sensations that we feel, due to the chemistry that is generated when we fall in love : the high levels of dopamine, testosterone and norepinephrine that our brain secretes.That is why they have an expiration date: between 1 and 4 years!

How long is love?

Researchers at the University of Pisa also concluded in practically the same : the crush lasts between 2 and 4 years.After this time, our brain returns to normal.

After this period according to the sexologist Dietrich Klusmann , women stop having sexual desire while in man that desire is maintained.Why? The explanation for him is only in the evolution of the species: the woman wants to close the love relationship with her partner and the man to maintain fidelity.

How long is love?

For Frederic Beidberger, author of« Te I will love, for a lifetime? ”, love lasts 900 days, 156 weeks or 3 months the rest is affinity, affection and voluntary commitment to want to continue with that person.

And what do the statistics say? ?

1.According to a US study 2 out of 5 marriages end in divorce.The reasons: unhappiness (59.9%) and lack of communication (6.7%).

2.The average of the divorce is after a relationship of 14.5 years.By annulment 9 years and by separation 17.8 years.

Is that all?

Some sure that you will have been as sad as the author of this article.So, with this we have What's to settle for? Do we have to get the idea that in one of the 2 the brain will return to normal before the other and that at least one heart is broken?

How long is love?

Where is complicity, company, love, respect , the family? What about those old couples who love each other? Maybe a certain age has arrived, we no longer want to go back to the ferris wheel of sensations and less periodically, right? The passionate love of Romeo and Juliet cannot and should not last a lifetime.Being stunned, not being able to stop thinking about that person and feeling butterflies in the stomach constantly runs out. What about that other deeper love , more intense, more spiritual that can unite us for many, many years? That link in our opinion, although different, can be as powerful as that passionate love of the first years.

How long is love?

We would love you to complete the article with your opinions, because regardless of what Science says How do you live in love?

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