Love is Like Cocaine: Response Writing Assignment

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Love is Like Cocaine: Response
Helen Fisher’s “Love is Like Cocaine” is a candid expression of how love is as addictive as cocaine. Drug addicts know very well that if they fail to take their normal doses, it will be chaotic both in their physical and emotional lives. In the same vein, Fisher underscores that the power of love cannot be underestimated since it makes people behave like addicts.
Fisher asserts that romantic love and attachments are extremely powerful, and she goes ahead to affirm that they are forms of addictions (Fisher). Just like cocaine addicts, lovers can do anything to stay close to one another. Just like Fisher highlights, for those who are deeply in love, they always look forward to satisfying and feeding their emotional and physical attachments (Fisher). A critical analysis to Fisher’s article shows that romantic...