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posted by Jessica Morris in Relationships

Chocolate and relationships: A new way of looking at the two

February 16, 2012

I heard a story the other day on NPR about chocolate and relationships. The report cited studies where participants taste-tested chocolates and generally the very last chocolate they tasted was the one they remembered as tastiest.

Some participants were warned that they were about to eat their last chocolate and were three times more likely to choose the last one as their favorite.

The article went on to compare the "last one" favorability concept with online dating profiles. In this study profiles framed as "the last one" seemed more compatible and attractive. 

You can read more @ http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/14/146874769/why-the-best-choco...

So with these findings we can reasonably conclude that the things we experience last will most likely seem better than if they had appeared to us in any other chronological variation.

Take that conclusion and apply it to say breaking up with a significant other, and you've got an entire new way of looking at "the last one".

Do you remember your first break up? I remember mine. When I was fourteen, Kenny, the love of my life moved to Florida and I was devestated. He even came over so I could give him back his necklace and my dog bit him. Talk about some tragic icing on the cake.

I eventually moved on with my life, although I do remember the initial depression that engulfed my adolescent heart. Along with all the tears, I couldn't eat, I slept all day long, and my stomach was in about a million knots.

I don't remember how long it took me to "get over" Kenny, but I do remember going through subsequent break-ups throughout highschool and college, and they never get much easier.

But what if these breakups, these "last ones" in our lives are just like those pieces of chocolate?

Just extra delicious (or bittersweet) because they were the last ones we tasted. Perhaps we should try and keep those chocolate in our perspective as we sort through our grief and move on. That or just open a new bag.

Any thoughts? Are significant others anything like chocolate?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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