Helen Fisher

And I got married to him at age 75. When he asked me to marry him, I said, I'll marry you, but I'm not moving in. Because I have a little nice apartment in New York. He's got a beautiful apartment in the Bronx. But I mean, I'm there five nights a week. The other nights I like to go to the theater with my girlfriends, etc.

Well, I actually don't think that they're a failure, but that's for different Darwinian reasons.

Well, I actually don't think that they're a failure, but that's for different Darwinian reasons.

Well, I actually don't think that they're a failure, but that's for different Darwinian reasons.

I ended up finding that romantic love is an addiction.

I ended up finding that romantic love is an addiction.

I ended up finding that romantic love is an addiction.

Well, nobody gets out of love alive. We all know that. But we go on. That is Helen Fisher. I'm a biological anthropologist at the Kinsey Institute, and I write books on love.

Well, nobody gets out of love alive. We all know that. But we go on. That is Helen Fisher. I'm a biological anthropologist at the Kinsey Institute, and I write books on love.

Well, nobody gets out of love alive. We all know that. But we go on. That is Helen Fisher. I'm a biological anthropologist at the Kinsey Institute, and I write books on love.

People are going to break up for very different kinds of reasons, but the brain just knows that you've been abandoned. And, of course, there's all kinds of cultural issues when you've been abandoned. I mean, you've lost some social ties.

People are going to break up for very different kinds of reasons, but the brain just knows that you've been abandoned. And, of course, there's all kinds of cultural issues when you've been abandoned. I mean, you've lost some social ties.

People are going to break up for very different kinds of reasons, but the brain just knows that you've been abandoned. And, of course, there's all kinds of cultural issues when you've been abandoned. I mean, you've lost some social ties.

You might have lost the cat, the dog, even children, or your home, or economic stability, or your bicycle, or your car, or what you do on Christmas or Hanukkah, etc. I mean, your daily rituals are disrupted. A lot of people will regard it as a failure, and indeed, it is a failure for them.

You might have lost the cat, the dog, even children, or your home, or economic stability, or your bicycle, or your car, or what you do on Christmas or Hanukkah, etc. I mean, your daily rituals are disrupted. A lot of people will regard it as a failure, and indeed, it is a failure for them.

You might have lost the cat, the dog, even children, or your home, or economic stability, or your bicycle, or your car, or what you do on Christmas or Hanukkah, etc. I mean, your daily rituals are disrupted. A lot of people will regard it as a failure, and indeed, it is a failure for them.

There was a wonderful study of teenagers in college, and Roy Baumeister and others, a psychologist, asked these kids, have you ever dumped somebody who really loved you? And 95% said yes. And then they asked, have you ever been dumped by somebody who you really loved? And 93% said yes. Now, these kids are in college. They got another 50 years of this roller coaster.

There was a wonderful study of teenagers in college, and Roy Baumeister and others, a psychologist, asked these kids, have you ever dumped somebody who really loved you? And 95% said yes. And then they asked, have you ever been dumped by somebody who you really loved? And 93% said yes. Now, these kids are in college. They got another 50 years of this roller coaster.

There was a wonderful study of teenagers in college, and Roy Baumeister and others, a psychologist, asked these kids, have you ever dumped somebody who really loved you? And 95% said yes. And then they asked, have you ever been dumped by somebody who you really loved? And 93% said yes. Now, these kids are in college. They got another 50 years of this roller coaster.