True Love/Maggie Gallagher

Over at familyscholars.org, Sara Butler has posted comments from evolutionary psychologist David Buss, in response to the question: What do you believe in that you cannot prove?

David's answer? True love.

"While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular love are well traveled and their markers are well understood by many-the mesmerizing attraction, the ideational obsession, the sexual afterglow, profound self-sacrifice, and the desire to combine DNA. But true love takes its own course through uncharted territory. It knows no fences, has no barriers or boundaries. It is difficult to define, eludes modern measurement, and seems scientifically wooly. But I know true love exists. I just can't prove it."


Hmmm, mesmerizing attraction, the ideational obsession, the sexual afterglow, profound self-sacrifice, and the desire to combine DNA. Regular love sounds good enough to me.

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