Lucky
me. I’m the romance author who gets to write a blog on Valentine’s Day. Cliché,
right? Well, earlier this week, I found a fascinating special on Public Radio about
love, and learned some interesting things:
Neurologist Lucy Brown said the
brain of a person head over heels in love resembles the brain of a person high
on cocaine.
Anthropologist Helen Fisher
believes romantic love is a basic human drive that evolved to keep people
together long enough to procreate and continue the species.
Esquire writer and
editor A.J. Jacobs underwent an MRI to see how he would react to looking at
pictures of his wife versus pictures of Angelina Jolie. He says he
has now scientifically proven he loves
his wife.
Jacobs
is one man who believes we’ve over-romanticized
romance, and that it’s time for some down-to-earth, feet-on-the-ground
Valentine messages. And he’s created some hysterical ones called Valentines
for Rational Lovers. Here’s a sampling:
Public Radio's "What Is This Thing Called Love?” one-hour special is
part of its series titled The Really Big Questions. You can
listen to more at: http://trbq.org/love/
Until
next month,
Jenna
