WHY WE LOVE?

The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
Helen Fisher

“If you want flashes and particular experiences of romantic love, read novels. If you want to understand this central quality of human nature, read Why We love.” –E.O. Wilson, university research professor emeritus, Harvard University, author of Consilience

Who among us, humans, especially those who have been in love that have not ever asked themselves regarding those weird feelings that come with the so called falling in love high, why do we feel that way? And most of the times we were left completely wondering, without knowing what was going one within us. I had always felt that way, until the day I came across this paragraph while I was reading a random magazine, it was titled: “love addiction,” I was like WOW, “love addiction? Yes,
“Love addiction”
A brain research out in the U.K confirms that the love-bitten brain is active in the same centres that generate drug highs. Love is indeed addictive and uses the same neural mechanisms that are activated by drug dependency.

Then they proceeded to recommend books to understand love much better:

-Why We Love: the nature and chemistry of romantic love, by Helen Fisher

_Speed Dating, by Helen Fisher

It is how I discovered this fantastic and comprehensive book about love (crazy feeling). Helen meticulously gathered in details all the necessary information needed to understand romantic love, not only from the humanistic perspective, but inclusively all the living things; from the tiniest asexual plant until the last mammal. In this book you will find stuff, such as “What Wild Ecstasy”: Being in love; Animal Magnetism; Chemistry of Love; Web of Love: Lust, Romance, and Attachment; Why We Love: The Evolution of Romantic Love, and much more… This book will leave you wanting more, it is really super informative. I have not ever read a book full of stamina like this one, Why We Love?



Helen Fisher, PhD., is one of the country’s most prominent anthropologists. Prior to becoming a research professor at Rutgers University, she was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Dr. Fisher has conducted extensive research on the evolution, expression, and chemistry of love. Her two most recent books, The First Sex and Anatomy of Love, were New York Times Notable Books. She grow up in Connecticut and lives in New York City.