How to Talk to Cupid Psychology Today
Cupid's Poisoned Arrow
Why does the honeymoon end--and what can we do?
by Marnia Robinson
August 3, 2009,
How to Talk to Cupid
Excerpts:
Hit by Cupid's arrow! It feels so good that you might seek a permanent bond, convinced that passion will keep you both quivering with ecstasy for a lifetime. Yet Cupid is a sneaky dude, or rather the biological agenda he personifies does not, in fact, promote enduring love.
Cupid's dart is but the first of a series of neurochemical impulses in a primitive part of your brain known as the limbic system. Your limbic system is so powerful, and efficiently wired, that it sometimes completely overwhelms your rational mind. Take its mating agenda, for example. Its goal is to urge you to (1) fall in love with reckless fireworks that propel sperm to egg, (2) bond long enough to fall in love with any kids so they have two caregivers, (3) get fed up with your mate, and (4) begin looking around for a new one. In short, it pushes you to fool around—whether you do or not. This improves the genetic variety of offspring, and the greater the variety, the better genes' chances of sailing into the future. Callous, but effective.
Read full article: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cupids-poisoned-arrow/200908/how-talk-cupid
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This posting was made my Jim Jacobs, President & CEO of Jacobs Executive Advisors. Jim also serves as Leader of Jacobs Advisors' Insurance Practice.
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