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can be enormously rewarding, but many people also find the early period of a relationship to be one of heightened stress and uncertainty."Love is often accompanied by jealousy, erratic behavior, and irrationality, along with a host of other less-than-positive emotions and moods. It seems that our friendly cohort of hormones is also responsible for the downsides of love," writes Wu.
Wu calls the rush of hormones associated with the early stages of love a"double-edged sword" which can cause us to make poor decisions, neglect our everyday commitments, or hurt others . She adds that our experience of early love is not dissimilar to various forms of addiction."The same regions that light up when we're feeling attraction light up when drug addicts take cocaine and when we binge eat sweets," writes Wu.
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