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How to Know if Your Partner is ‘The One’

The concept of soulmates dates back to 360 BC in Plato’s Symposium. Plato tells us a story that describes humans as originally having four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces. He explains that we were all split from our other halves, constantly trying to put ourselves back together.

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In Plato’s myth we all have a longing to be reunited with our better half. But how do we know when we’ve met them? If he/she is the one?

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Letting Go Of Love

Love is an addiction. No, seriously, it is.

This isn’t just a metaphor – our brains react in precisely the same way to love as they do to heroin and crystal meth. Despite what culture has been telling us for centuries, love isn’t supernatural. It’s a profoundly natural phenomenon, with identifiable neurobiological components. This doesn’t diminish it. Our bodies and brains are incredible entities, and the fact that they can create and perpetuate love simply adds to the wonder of the thing.

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But what about when our addiction is taken away from us? When the brain has a ‘love habit’ and love is suddenly denied it, we go into a truly horrible form of withdrawal. What can we do to get through this, without damaging ourselves or others? How do we go through this thing called letting go of love?

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