I have shared Helen Fisher‘s work before on Beyond Meds. She has done important work looking at how psychiatric drugs affect bonding and love. That post is here: Psych drugs damage ability to love/bond. I also consider in it what might be happening to young people who are going through sexual development while growing up on these drugs in that post.
What I’m sharing today is much more generalized and not specifically about psychiatric drugs. There are a lot of details about romantic love in 21st century. I found it quite interesting and often quite optimistic while also taking a sobering look at the reality we find ourselves in. I also think it only barely touches the surface of everything that is going on right now, so there is lots of room for further discussion and analysis. I didn’t feel inclined to make that analysis here today, but maybe we can do a bit of that in comments on Facebook.
From “On Being”
In her TED talks that have been viewed by millions of people and the research she does for Match.com, Helen Fisher
wields science as a sobering, if entertaining, lens on what feels like the most meaningful encounters of our lives. She is a leading anthropologist/explorer on the new frontier of seeing inside our brains when love and sex happen. And she reveals how we can take this knowledge as a form of power — to give conscious new meaning to the thrilling and sometimes treacherous human realms of love, sex, and marriage.
Listen here:
Everything Matters 
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