The Forbidden Fruit

It's funny how you have all the good looking men of the universe hitting on you when you're already seeing someone, and particularly when you're in a committed relationship. Without even batting an eyelid or thinking twice, you just smile and say "Thanks, but no thanks" because you're so much in love with the person you're seeing that you see no need to look beyond.

And when you're single, those men miraculaously vanish! Hardly any men ask you out and those who do have LOSER written in caps across their foreheads!

I don't understand this phenomenon. It's not like you go from zero to irresistably attractive as soon as you start seeing someone!

I remember reading a scientific explanation for this sometime back. It said something to the effect that when you're in a relationship, your body secretes these hormones that make you glow & make you more attractive to the opposite sex. Rather, they attract the oppotite sex towards you. Maybe there's truth to this explanation but since there's no way to prove such an abstract hypothesis, I prefer to believe that it's just the case of "the forbidden fruit". We get attracted to someone we can't get because they're committed elsewhere. I guess we haven't been able to overcome the lure of the "forbidden fruit", and seems like we never will. It makes our otherwise insipid lives spicier, and what's life without a little bit of spice? ;-)