Why broken hearts hurt... A new study suggests the psychological hurt of a break-up is just as real as a physical injury. Two areas of the brain that respond to physical pain also become activated when a person is dealing with social pain, such as being dumped. The researchers believe that the pain of being rejected may have evolved as a motivating force that led humans to seek out social interaction, which is crucial for the survival of most mammals.
(Laura Schaefer - http://http://msnuk.match.com/matchscene/article.aspx?articleid=6431&TrackingID=511021&BannerID=558924)
So break up pain has evolved so that the lonely and broken hearted will desperately seek out another's bed to take away the hurt...thus ensuring the survival of the species. Personally, I couldn't have given a hoot about the survival of the wretched species when I was in break-up hell. I'd have probably thought it a good thing we all stopped copulating so that no other poor bugger had to endure the pain of abandonment. And as for it being just as real as a physical injury...tell us something we don't know - it's like a disease! No appetite, dizziness, nightmares, forgetfulness, chest pain, stomach pain, panic attacks. Give me a broken arm and a six week plaster cast anyday. A broken heart aint so easy to mend.
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I can vouch for that disease! Only a fool would underestimate the pain of a broken heart.
I'm still trying to decide if the saying "tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" was written by that said fool.
By the way, is anyone going to introduce Sister Samantha?
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