What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not about honesty. Many men and women, when they're playing the courtship game, deceive so they can win. Novelty, excitement and danger drive up dopamine in the brain. And both sexes brag.
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Any way it happens, the combined sexual-emotional affair delivers a fatal blow not just to marriages but to the traditional male code. The double standard for adultery is disappearing, ... It's been around for 5,000 years and it's changing in our lifetime. It's quite striking. Men used to feel that they had the right. They don't feel that anymore.Helen Fisher
Sound familiar Don't despair. Who says Mother Nature isn't ripe for a con Helen Fisher suspects that you can fool your biochemistry into believing you're still back in the chase phase. Novel experiences drive up levels of dopamine in the brain, ... can stimulate the release of testosterone, the hormone of sexual desire.
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It is very much like a drug high. When you're madly in love, you think this person is more special than anyone else on Earth. You focus all your attention on them. You have personality changes. You're willing to take great risks to win the person's affection. And you have a tolerance level -- you see the person a couple of times a week at first, and that's OK for a while, and then you've got to see them every night.
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