Neuroscience reveals the brain’s love pleasure chemicals are usually released for 1½ to 3 years max.
In other words, being in love should last you roughly as long as your next mobile phone handset.
But by the time you’re starting to view it as a right brick, it won’t be so easy to upgrade, plus you could be engaged with a ring.
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