Barry was a grumpy and ungrateful husband. His wife, Sue, tried to remember the last time he had made eye contact with her, let alone when they had last laughed together. It wasn’t what she had ...

A good friend of mine recently reminded me that I was once heartbroken by a certain Kamba girl. We were passing by her house, so he made a joke about it, but I didn’t laugh. I let his joke dry on the ...

Your heart pounds, thoughts obsess over one person, and rational thinking flies out the window. Love doesn’t just feel like a drug – your brain literally processes it like one. Understanding this ...

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love, Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on ...

"Love at first sight:" that phenomenon where you meet someone's eyes across a crowded room, your heartbeat quickens, butterflies form in your stomach, and you feel like you just found "the one." It’s ...

We've all been there: falling so deeply for someone that their flaws seem to vanish and only the brighter side shines. Suddenly, the rest of the world seems non-existent, and there’s only one person ...

They don’t call love a drug for nothing. When we fall for someone, our brains release a cocktail of chemicals, creating feelings of euphoria and pleasure and (if all goes well) closeness and comfort.

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, relationships are on everyone’s mind. For Prof. Elizabeth Riley, psychology, it’s something that she discusses and studies daily through her course, HD 3620: ...

But why is that? What is it about our relationships that make them so central to our lives? According to neuroscientist Ben Rein’s new book, Why Brains Need Friends, it comes down to our brains. As he ...