an essential question for the
essay in progress
Why are first-love memories so potent?
A few years ago, when in Munich with my husband, I looked up my college boyfriend, who is German. Our three-year relationship had been intense, but we had not been in touch for 45 years. Happily married, I never expected our meeting to be so overwhelming. Have you reconnected with an old love -- or avoided doing so? Will you share your story? explore >>
- other questions for the essay in progress
- First love versus the memory of first love
- How can you have intense feelings about someone in the past, while having no feelings about the person in the present?
- Why do we feel we know an old lover intimately despite the years, decades of separation?
- Is passionate love an emotion or a drive?
- Why doesn’t romantic passion last?
- Is continued sexual passion even possible in long-term love?
- How adding the biology changes the equation
- Why do we fall in love with the person we do?
- How love changes the brain
