Scientists: True love can last a lifetime
This from CNN tonight:
(CNN) -- Love's first blush fading? Lost that loving feeling? Love is not all around? Sick of cliches?
Take heart, scientists have discovered that people can have a love that lasts a lifetime.
Using brain scans, researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have discovered a small number of couples respond with as much passion after 20 years together as most people only do during the early throes of romance, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported.
The researchers scanned the brains of couples together for 20 years and compared them with results from new lovers, the Sunday Times said.
About 10 percent of the mature couples had the same chemical reactions when shown photographs of their loved ones as those just starting out.
Previous research has suggested that the first stages of romantic love fade within 15 months and after 10 years it has gone completely, the newspaper said.
"The findings go against the traditional view of romance -- that it drops off sharply in the first decade -- but we are sure it's real," said Arthur Aron, a psychologist at Stony Brook, told the Sunday Times.
(CNN) -- Love's first blush fading? Lost that loving feeling? Love is not all around? Sick of cliches?
Take heart, scientists have discovered that people can have a love that lasts a lifetime.
Using brain scans, researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have discovered a small number of couples respond with as much passion after 20 years together as most people only do during the early throes of romance, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported.
The researchers scanned the brains of couples together for 20 years and compared them with results from new lovers, the Sunday Times said.
About 10 percent of the mature couples had the same chemical reactions when shown photographs of their loved ones as those just starting out.
Previous research has suggested that the first stages of romantic love fade within 15 months and after 10 years it has gone completely, the newspaper said.
"The findings go against the traditional view of romance -- that it drops off sharply in the first decade -- but we are sure it's real," said Arthur Aron, a psychologist at Stony Brook, told the Sunday Times.
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Note: All they had to do was ask us. Rory was my true soulmate.
So, now that the notion of soulmates is grounded in biochemical research, someone needs to find a way to really describe it to those not fortunate to have had a soulmate. I feel blessed that Rory and I found each other, even if our time here on Earth wasn't nearly long enough. No, our marriage wasn't perfect. No marriage is. I will see him again one day, I know it. I just need to be patient. When the Lord calls me home, we will be together again. In the meantime, I plan on enjoying my life! This was actually an agreement that Rory and I made long before his illness hit us. We told each other that if the other was gone, we would continue on and have fun. And I have every reason in the world to have fun!
So, now that the notion of soulmates is grounded in biochemical research, someone needs to find a way to really describe it to those not fortunate to have had a soulmate. I feel blessed that Rory and I found each other, even if our time here on Earth wasn't nearly long enough. No, our marriage wasn't perfect. No marriage is. I will see him again one day, I know it. I just need to be patient. When the Lord calls me home, we will be together again. In the meantime, I plan on enjoying my life! This was actually an agreement that Rory and I made long before his illness hit us. We told each other that if the other was gone, we would continue on and have fun. And I have every reason in the world to have fun!
