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12/16/2008: "Ever lasting love"

A long-married couple's claim that they are still as much in love as they day they wed is usually met with more than a pinch of disbelief.

Couples who are still deeply in love after more than two decades of marriage experience the same sense of euphoria as those in the first flush of love, brain scans showed.

Those newly in love also showed activity in a part of the brain associated with obsession and anxiety, whereas the long-timers were using parts linked to calmness and the suppression of pain.

Dr Fisher said: 'The difference is that in long-term love, the obsession, the mania, the anxiety, has been replaced with calm.

Other work by the same researchers has shown that the brain can differentiate between sex and love.


[ It's nice to see a report showing that love can last and make people so happy, when so often we read stories about promiscuity and associated neurotic behaviour. ]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1095599/Enduring-love-Couples-madly-love-20-years-meet.html