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It's Valentine's Day, the season where we talk about love in all its various forms, including

how to find it if you don't have it, and how to keep it if you do.

My returning guest today is Dr. Helen Fisher, who's one of America's most prominent

anthropologists on love.

She's a senior research fellow at the Kinsey Institute and chief science advisor to the dating

site, Match.com, where she gets to keep her finger on the pulse of people finding their matches.

She's also the author of six internationally bestselling books on the science of romantic love, attachment, adultery, divorce, and the evolution and future of human family life.

We'll start off today talking about what she's seen change in love during pandemic times, and then move into the eternal qualities of love, like romance and true love, and how they both happen in our brain and manifest in our lives.

Welcome, Dr. Fisher.

I'm delighted to be with you.

Oh, it is a joy and pleasure to have you here today.

Thank you.

So you have noticed some interesting things happening in the world of love over the last few years

of the pandemic. Can you share with us some of your insights? Absolutely. I'm actually saying

that this is an historic change. I've never used that word before. I mean, I've talked about love

for 40 years, but this is an historic change. I mean, you can't lock up people for two years and expect

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