[troutman]

Originally Posted by scotty2hotty

I was reading a book recently (may have been Change Your Mind, Change Your Body by Daniel Amen, but I'm not sure) where he mentions a pet theory of his that a major cause of divorce is hormonal changes brought on by unhealthy lifestyles. Essentially, years or decades of unhealthy eating and other lifestyle habits bring about predictable hormonal and neurotransmitter changes. This leads people to 'fall out of love', no longer have any libido, addictions, become 'different people', etc.

He said it would be interesting to put people on healthy lifestyle programs before the option of divorce to see if things change. People were in love once ... what changed as they got older?

Again, was just a pet theory of his and I am greatly paraphrasing. Interesting none the less.

Not just unhealthy lifestyles. There is an interesting exhibit at the new Science Center called "Your Brain On Love". A graph shows how your brain waves change over the length of a relationship.



Your Brain in Love
Cupid's arrows, laced with neurotransmitters, find their marks
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...-love-graphsci

http://www.youramazingbrain.org/lovesex/sciencelove.htm