Are Women Better At Getting Over Breakups?

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According to a new study, when women experience a breakup they experience a lot of emotional pain right away, but that goes away after time. Men's pain sticks around for much longer.

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This Is Your Brain On Heartbreak:
http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/artic...

“As most of us know all too well, when you’re reeling from the finale of a romantic relationship that you didn’t want to end, your emotional and bodily reactions are a tangle: You’re still in love and want to reconcile, but you’re also angry and confused; simultaneously, you’re jonesing for a “fix” of the person who has abruptly left your life, and you might go to dramatic, even embarrassing, lengths to get it, even though part of you knows better."

What Your Brain Looks Like After 20 Years Of Marriage:
http://healthland.time.com/2011/01/11...

“Contrary to popular opinion, people who say they are still madly in love with their spouses after more than two decades are not crazy. At least, some of them aren’t."

Social Rejection Shares Somatosensory Representations With Physical Pain:
http://www.pnas.org/content/108/15/62...

“Consider two scenarios. In the first, you spill a hot cup of coffee on your forearm and experience intense pain. In the second, you look at pictures of your former romantic partner, a person with whom you recently experienced an unwanted breakup; as you view each photo you feel rejected and experience another kind of ‘pain.'"

Study: Women Hurt More By Breakups But Recover More Fully:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_release...

“Women experience more emotional pain following a breakup, but they also more fully recover, according to new research from Binghamton University."

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