The chemical, oxytocin, that makes us want to cuddle, also makes us very suspicious of out-groups, people who are not in our relationship.
What’s become clear is that, like romantic love, pregnancy is something that changes the risk and the reward processing circuit of the brain.
Couples that stay together tend to have very highly correlated levels of oxytocin.
Everyone has a unique odor print that is built on your immune system genes and that is one of the things that attracts you to a partner.
A broken heart isn’t something that should be discounted.
I can go with my gut and sort of feel a situation out. And I think that’s rather liberating.
As much as I would like to argue that fathers' biological commitment to pregnancy is very little, they do go through some changes.
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