Sentences with phrase «romantic object of affection»

Obviously if you buy a 2 carat diamond, your romantic object of affection is going to know you either robbed a bank, are in serious debt now, or had way more stashed away than your previous dates to the drive - through indicated!

Not exact matches

Redstone's lawyers say Herzer wanted to obstruct any romantic interests because she «recognized that the object of Mr. Redstone's affections held the key to his pocketbook, and thus she became focused on keeping other women out of his life.»

Romantic love involves a series of complex changes in the brain's reward system that make us crave the object of our affection

Think of the unwed mother who falls in love with her gay best friend in The Object of My Affection; the broke, still - single stoner and odd - man - out in Friends With Money; the adult who tries and fails at cohabitation with a man - child in The Break - Up, a raw relationship drama dressed up as a romantic comedy; or the professional woman, angsting for a baby, who opts for artificial insemination in The Switch.

Romantic comedy crosses with spy action in This Means War, a film that forms a love triangle out of two CIA operatives and the civilian object of their affections.

While she can't help but imagine what it might be like to be involved with her pretty writing workshop professor, the up - and - coming literary star Harriet Drake, it all just seems like a wild fantasy, a far away dream, until she suddenly finds herself as the object of her older teacher's romantic affections.

My relationship with EVE is like that of a cowardly romantic, too many cats on their tongue and butterflies in their stomach to approach the object of their affections.

A number of psychologists have described some forms of love just as you have: like an addiction; there is intense desire to spend time with the object of our affection, we experience intense cravings, emotional dependence, mood swings, and even loss of control and compulsive behaviors.1 In one study utilizing fMRI technology (brain imaging), subcortical reward systems in the brain were activated when adults viewed photographs of someone who had rejected their love; 2 this part of the brain is the same area that lights up when people experience intense, romantic love3 and is rich in dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter associated with rewards like pleasure.