That’s the power of love

We’ve all been there–that goofy high you get when you first fall in love. (Editor’s note: If you regularly read or write for SG, “we” probably does not include you.) As it turns out, that dopey feeling may actually be dope.

Aside from the ability to annoy your friends by skipping into a room, science has found that the beginnings of love actually may also give you a higher pain threshold. Researchers found that just doing things with your betrothed helped ease pain of some sort. It also reduces the number of nights you spend wailing into your pillow about worrying that you won’t have a kid before you’re too old.

It was found that those who were looking at their lovers while they had their hands burned could actually stand it longer than if they were looking at someone else. They equated it to morphine, you know, that highly-addictive painkiller they give you sometimes in hospitals that makes just moving your head seem like a wild ride.

Yeah, love.