“Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.”
Quoted in Aaron Ben-Ze'ev (2001), The Subtlety of Emotions, p. 445 http://books.google.com/books?id=S0rkL_Unl-cC&pg=PA445
Karl Murdock Bowman, MD was a pioneer in the study of psychiatry. From 1944 to 1946 he was the president of the American Psychiatric Association. His work in alcoholism, schizophrenia, and homosexuality is particularly often cited. Wikipedia
“Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.”
Quoted in Aaron Ben-Ze'ev (2001), The Subtlety of Emotions, p. 445 http://books.google.com/books?id=S0rkL_Unl-cC&pg=PA445