…o no evolutionary purpose to the in love feeling lasting longe…o no evolutionary purpose to the in love feeling lasting longer than it takes to produce offspring. Sorry, but nature is far from romantic. Nature doesn’t give a fuck about making you feel endless butterflies for the same person over decades.
Tom Stoppard once said that real love is the “knowledge of each other, not of the flesh but through the flesh, knowledge of self, the real him, the real her, in extremis, the mask slipped from the face.” Alain de Botton argues that we marry the wrong people because our attraction-fueled expectations su…