But what is a perfect relationship? In modern day society we assume a sucessful relationship is about staying together with the one partner for your life but it hasn’t always been this way...
I recently came across anthropologist Helen Fisher who has dedicated years of her life observing 'love' in cultures around the world. Apparently, 97% of mammuals do not 'pair up' in order to rear their young. Humans are actually an annomoly! It makes you wonder why we are so unusual and why we stay together with our partners? She has a theory about why this is. Fisher suggests it's so the couple can rear their young together... We didn't always live in the world we do now, back in the hunter gatherer days a women could not carry around a heavy baby and fend for herself so required a man to look after her. The man could only realistically look after one women, hence we have monogomy. So, the idea of 'attachment' and forming a 'pair bond' is not necessarily some romantic notion but rather a necessity for our survival!
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