The findings overturn the conventional view that love and sexual desire peak at the start of a relationship then start to fade within 15 months or that after 10 years the chemical tide ebbs away.

• 这项发现反驳了传统爱情观点，即爱情和性渴望在感情关系确立初期达到极致，15个月内开始淡化，10年后已经消逝。