How to revive passion and strengthen feelings
So, here is a list of the main factors that influence the formation of dopamine passion. Notice how often these things happen in your life. If not, use the list as a guide to improving your relationship.

1. Create, develop and share experience
As already mentioned, researchers note that in a long happy relationship, in addition to friendship, personal growth plays a role. This idea was even turned into a whole theory of self-expansion (Self-Expansion Theory). According to her, if a partner contributes to a new experience, this strengthens love and passion. You can understand the theory literally: a person expands your knowledge, skills, opens up new horizons for you, brings something new to life, supports your ideas and helps to realize them. From a biological point of view, this raises your awareness of this world and how to make life safer and more prosperous to a new level.

So travel (our evolutionary roots encourage exploration of new territories), learn something together, help each other (it is important that it is really interesting for both), run a common business, and so on.

2. Focus on novelty
Everything new is also surrounded by a dopamine flair - for the brain, this is also a new experience, even if it does not develop you as effectively as a new book, starting a startup, or traveling abroad.

Give gifts, change your favorite places for walking with new locations. Role-playing games with dressing up also give off something new, don't they?

3. Go extreme (but in moderation)
With very vivid sensations, the brain no longer confuses stimuli - in the experiment described above, the men just walked along a bridge swaying in the wind.

In the movies, we often see how a couple who survived troubles unite in a kiss. At the moment of danger, we are not up to romance, but when it recedes, dopamine takes over. It is needed in order to calm the feeling of fear when everything is behind. If not for him, we would have been shaking for hours after a harmless rustle that frightened us.

4. Solve common problems
This activates oxytocin and vasopressin, which increase attachment. According to the theory of self-expansion, close people perceive their partner's problems as their own, which means they are ready to participate in their solution.

Do not blame your partner for your common troubles. Help him cope with difficulties and ask for help yourself.

5. Laugh
Many people tend to fall in love with those who have a good sense of humor, and there is a reason for this. “Dopamine is associated with positive emotions that correlate with novelty, creativity, and also humor. A joke is also a kind of simulated situation in which there could be a banal way out, and you were offered an unusual outcome, and you laugh, ”says Vyacheslav Dubynin, Doctor of Biological Sciences, a specialist in brain physiology. Thus, humor indirectly echoes the desire to know the world.

It’s not even necessary to joke on your own - it’s enough that you can laugh at something together. Funny movies and videos from YouTube, funny games like Twister or Imaginarium will do.

Look for things that both of you like, bring together and excite you. After all, science doesn't know everything about your love.