“Altruism, compassion, empathy, love, conscience, the sense of justice-all of these things, the things that hold society together, the things that allow our species to think so highly of itself, can now confidently be said to have a firm genetic basis. The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology But it's certainly a more impressive love.” Will it be a richer love, a deeper love, a more spiritual love? Opinions vary. But it will be a different kind of love from the kind that began the marriage. With the help of these things, something worthy of the label 'love' can last until death. The ardor will surely fade, sooner or later, and the marriage will then live or die on respect, practical compatibility, simple affection, and (these days, especially) determination. But whether the sheer fury of a man's feelings accurately gauges their likely endurance is another question. This isn't to say that a young man can't hope to be seized by love. It requires what, for lack of a better term, we can call an act of will. Lifelong monogamous devotion is just not natural-not for women even, and emphatically not for men. “asting love is something a person has to decide to experience.
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