There’s a reason why your first love feels impossible to shake, even years or decades later. It’s not just nostalgia or romanticizing the past—there are actual psychological and biological reasons why ...

Discover the psychological and neurological reasons why a first love leaves such an indelible mark on our minds, and what it ...

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before, she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? –Bob Marley The temporal order of being someone's first, second, or ...

There's a reason why countless movies, books, and songs have been written about first loves: they make a pretty strong mark on your memory — and your heart. In fact, that experience can become a ...

First love. Oh, the thrilling rush of the high! And, ugh, the heartbreaking crush of the low. Do we ever forget our first love? No. But do we get over them? That depends. It's often said that women ...

Do we ever forget our first love? It's a question occupying the minds of some people on the internet. The "men's first love theory," the idea that men don't get over their first love, has left some ...

Your first love occupies a unique space in your heart, no matter how many years pass. That initial taste of romance – whether a high school sweetheart or summer fling – creates neural pathways and ...

I had lost faith in the universe — until an apparition of my smiling, 16-year-old late ex-boyfriend appeared. By Mara Chadnick My husband was unbothered when I mentioned that my first love’s ghost ...

Earlier this month, I kept picking up and putting down Lily King's new novel, Heart the Lover. I love King's writing but the opening section was hard for me to take — not in a grisly Cormac McCarthy ...