Psychotherapy Commission ACPEMost adults in the United States experience the intense rush of passionate love only about twice throughout their lives, according to a large-scale survey. The analysis of data from more than 10,000 single adults aged 18 to 99 found an average of 2.05 passionate-love experiences, with about 14 percent never feeling it and 30 percent reporting two experiences. The findings frame love as a three-part model of passion, intimacy, and commitment, with passion described as the initial intense longing that often fades as relationships mature toward companionate love.
These findings offer a data-driven perspective on romantic development, showing how age and gender relate to experiences of passionate love and how memory can reinterpret past relationships. They also illustrate how cognitive biases like retrospective discounting can shape what is counted as passionate love.
Article Title: Most Americans experience passionate love only twice in a lifetime, study finds
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