Oxytocin: The Love Bug

There’s a little known secret between men and women that explains why women seemingly fall in love more easily than men.

It’s called oxytocin, otherwise known as “the bonding hormone.”

Oxytocin stimulates contractions during the birthing process, is responsible for milk ejection while lactating, and is released during orgasm.

Difference is the effects last up to 3 weeks in women and 3 days for men. Hence the theory of fatal attraction finally gets retribution.

Each time a woman has an orgasm, oxytocin is released and she becomes adhered to the man who caused it. Or at least was there when it happened.

So every time the same man and woman have sex, she’s bonded to him. Over and over again.

It has to do with instinct, when women were more reliant on men for survival. Until she realizes she’s not pregnant by him, or perhaps is, she’s bound to him for protection of her unborn fetus. But when she finds that she’s not pregnant, and her hormones have once again stabilized, she’s basically lost that lovin’ feeling and is left wondering why she was attached to him in the first place.

Don’t you wish you knew this years ago?

Now it’s not always that she finds she’s not interested. It’s possible of course that a true bond may have genuinely formed, however most women I know sleep with a man and think he’s The One until a few weeks later and they’ve gotten to know him a little better.

And can’t figure out why they were ever attracted to him.

Oxytocin is basically a mind f*ck if you ask me!

I could’ve spared myself so much needless emotional turmoil over the years, not to mention downright humiliation, had I realized I had oxytocin streaming though my system!

I feel cheated, and yet, it’s all become crystal clear.

When body chemistry takes over, it’s uncontrollable. No matter how much you try to fight the feelings, they persist. But the good news is they’re not your fault.

It’s oxytocin’s, until it wears off.

Personally, I think it’s totally unfair that guys get away with the short end of the stick. At the same time though, it explains how they’re not as attached to women after sex as women are to men.

Oxytocin may be the single greatest discovery between the sexes since Adam and Eve. It clears the confusion of unreturned phone calls, ignored text messages, and no 2nd date.

Next time you broach the subject of sex, or dare to dabble, remember the effects of oxytocin. It’ll save you loads of heartache and keep your emotions in check.