Helen Fisher Passionate Love Summary

In chapters, eight and nine Helen Fisher, describes the relationship between love, drug addiction, and how people deal with their emotions when being in love. After reading her work, I agree with several of her claims. To begin with, Fisher describes romantic love as an “urge, a want, a need—a primordial mating drive that can be, at times, more powerful than hunger.”(pg 182) By stating this Fisher, if referring to a type of passionate love that is so strong, people have no control over it. Later on in her work Fisher describes, how passionate love is so attaching, that soon the lovers begin to feel as if they can no longer live without one another. When Fisher describes the attachment couples grow into, I feel as if it is a bit to extreme. Sure passionate love is very attaching, and at times people feel as if they can’t live without their significant other, however Fishers description of how lovers crave each other seems too excessive. Some of Fishers claims make sense, however others just seem non-realistic. I believe in true love, and Passionate love, but yet I think there is a …show more content…
Therefore, I disagree with the thoughts of marriage and sexual intimacy describes in the article. What seems to be off though, is the fact that later on in the article it speaks about Adam and Eve where Adam seems to show an affectionate feeling towards Eve. Although, in the beginning of the article it begins by stating how there are no feelings attached within two people even after sexual intercourse. When Adam states that even is his wife where replaced there would never be a woman as his original wife, it made me think that he obviously felt a strong emotional feeling for her, and it wasn’t only a simple “ Hungry sexual appetite”. That statement by Adam demonstrates a contradiction with the beginning of the