Category Archives: Marriage and Family Life

Why Feelings Cool Down over time and How to prolong Love

Strong feelings are indeed fleeting, but neuroscience offers several ways to revive them. Where do intense feelings come from? The most important role in the generation of passion and intense romantic feelings is given to dopamine, writes Semir Zeki, professor of neuroscience at University College London. By acting on certain receptors in the brain, this…
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Everyone wants to have a “healthy relationship.” What does it mean?

And why does a stable and calm relationship seem boring to someone? Popular psychology does its job, so many people strive to build healthy relationships: no violence, no control, no manipulation. But what exactly lies behind the definition of "healthy"? We figure out whether it is possible to “cure” relationships and where the line lies…
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