Love Hurts…Literally

All of the phrases we use to describe emotional pain from a breakup actually might have a scientific basis. A great and informative website, healthbolt.net, provides a list of everything you might think is purely mental regarding emotions like love, but is really not.

By Abby

For example, when you describe your relationship trauma as your heart being “broken”, this is not so far from the truth. “Brain imaging studies have shown that romantic rejection hurts like physical pain. Helen Fisher of Rutgers University proved that the same circuits of grey matter are triggered whether you have broken up or broken a leg.”

Or, if your friends try and coax you to go out and meet new people after a bad breakup, it might truly be physically good for you. “It might just help. According to Louanne Brizendine, author of The Female Brain, the only surefire way out of the ‘brain pain’ of relationship loss is to trigger a dopamine and oxytocin high – through sex.”

So, rebound hook-ups can now be considered a form of medication? Fabulous.

Don’t worry, these are not the only wonderful tidbits.

Can’t get over your first love and wonder why?

“First love really does leave an impression. A University of California, Berkeley, student found the first romantic relationship has a greater impact on an adult’s love life than any other influence, including parenting.”

Always find yourself yearning for that bad ass biker type?

“There is a reason women are drawn to emotionally unavailable men. Dr. Brizendine says females are wired to interpret an emotionless face as a signal they’re doing something wrong, and to work harder to get a response.”

Reading this information provided some weird justification for me that I wasn’t crazy for experiencing all these different emotions or feelings usually attributed to women.

Agree and want to read more? Check them all out here.