Dr. Marazziti speculates that this similarity in hormone levels helps to solidify relationships in their shaky early stages by erasing differences. Women with higher testosterone levels are more aggressive and assertive and have a greater sex drive than usual. Men with lower testosterone are less aggressive and less libidinous, making it more likely that they’ll keep their eye on the mate right tin front of them. The changes in their hormonal levels allow the two sexes to narrow the gap that might otherwise exist between them, which increases the likelihood that they’ll bond together successfully.
Blaise Pascal, the 17th century French mathematician, said, “ The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.” I heard a scientist say recently that our first mistake was trying to separate “the mind” from“ the brain”; his position was that all our behavior is governed by molecules in our brains. It occurs to me that we should extend his comment to include the heart. Is the apparently incomprehensible way we fall in love (and with whom we fall in love ) simply a disturbance in our neurons and neurotransmitters? Possibly. But that hardly makes it any less delicious.
Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget