Dec 1, 2005 1:06 AM

Handfasting starts to make sense

How’s this for taking the fun out of love: Love molecule ROME (Reuters) – Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It’s all part of falling passionately in love — and scientists now tell us the feeling won’t last more than a year. The powerful emotions […]

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How's this for taking the fun out of love:

Love molecule

ROME (Reuters) - Your heartbeat accelerates, you have butterflies in the stomach, you feel euphoric and a bit silly. It's all part of falling passionately in love – and scientists now tell us the feeling won't last more than a year.
The powerful emotions that bowl over new lovers are triggered by a molecule known as nerve growth factor (NGF), according to Pavia University researchers.

Think that's why the Scots set the term of a handfasting partnership to a year and a day?

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