The Medulla Obligation is the siren of the mating dance. "The character of the Medulla Obligation is much more complicated that that of gravity, yet no less powerful and no less consistent." You cannot escape her designs on your life, but you can flow with her and learn to recognize both advantages and pitfalls inherent and inevitable in human interaction. The Medulla Obligation will show you that you can affect the outcome of you relationships through a tilt in your perception. You can learn when to interact and when to quietly disengage, when your gifts are yours or are to be taken from you. You can learn how to make the best of your "turns at bat" in life to make a difference for you and those important to you, and how to keep yourself viable beyond established expectations. "She has no flexibility and has no reliance on the quality of the partners she pressures together. The test of that union is the survivability and behavioral adaptations of the children born from it...most of that 'safeguard' is now gone, and we have been unable to compensate."

Few things feel better than early love. We feel like we are flying. At that time, Nature adds its endorsement and accelerant to make sure survival concerns do not preempt going through the actions that have a high likelihood of making children. This force—the Medulla Obligation--is a compilation of hormones and romantic notions meant to enslave us to love’s duties. However, some of love’s duties are aggressive, territorial, and vicious, and those are exaggerated too. We have all been buried under its suffocating power many times in our lives. The introductory offer ends. Things were so promising; now confusion reigns. What do we have in front of us? What just happened? Who was that? “For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?” — Marcus Aurelius Once the nature of this force and its goals and methods are presented, sequenced, and better understood, we can prepare. This book is about the aftershocks sent out by the exaggerating forces of courtship as enforced by the Medulla Obligation—our core purpose—and their departure. Through awareness, we can still fly in the euphoria of new love, and escape the worst crashes of love when the flight loses momentum.

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