Emotional Availability

1. If love interest is already in love, breaking up his/her existing relationship is difficult.
2. People who always need to be in a relationship will less likely find their soulmates.
3. Dreamers are more resistant to falling in love than realists.
4. To singles, unattached people, all things equal, are more attractive than attached people.
5. Crack or heroin addicts will have a harder time falling and being in love.

1. Undermine your love interest's existing relationship by using deceit and deception.
2. Use the Model to manipulate the variables in your favor.

1. Never commit to a relationship. You are always single and available. Be a player.
2. Be selective with relationships. It is sad to belong to someone else when the right one comes along.
3. If you have a close friend of the opposite sex (assuming you are heterosexual), always publicize that you are "just friends". Keep your distance from each other at social events.
4. End any relationship that has no future as quickly as possible. Learn to be alone.
5. If you are one of the lucky few that are in love with their careers, keep it a secret referring to your passion as "just a job" to avoid being labeled a "workaholic".
6. If you are stuck in an unwanted relationship, refer to your lover as "a friend" when he/she is not with you.

Enhance the Love Model

• Add a variable to the Model - are you a social genius? Submit a new variable or equation.
• Suggest a change. - have a gripe about an existing variable or equation. Suggest a modification, edit, or addition to that variable or equation.
• Report a grammar or spelling mistake. - help us fix it.

The Theory of Love Economics

• Love Economics - a new love theory to promote intelligent dating by explaining love using simple math equations.
  • A Behavioral Model of Love - a mathematical model to understand love.
  • The Core Variables of Love - love's main variables.
  • A Relationship - explained by love economics
  • Assumptions of Love Economics - facts the model holds true.
  • Emotional Availability - are you available?
  • Past Love Experiences - are you screwed up or jaded?
  • Commitment - reasons why people stay together.
  • How to Use Love Economics - master the forces of love.
  
  
• The Benefits of Love-understand why everybody wants to be loved.
  • Emotional Needs - esteem, social, spiritual, and safety needs.
  • Entertainment Needs - are you fun?
  • Materialistic Needs - primary needs, sexual needs, and materialistic desires.
  
  
• The Costs of Love-understand why love causes so much problems and pain.
  • Search Cost of Love - finding love requires time, money, and energy.
    • Your Attractiveness - everything that makes people attractive.
    • Your Social Networking Skills - how many people do you know?
    • Search Time Cost - do you have time to search for love?
    • Search Financial Cost - do you have money to search for love?
  • Rejection Cost of Love - cost of being turned down.
  • Research Cost of Love - cost of verifying a potential lover.
  • Maintenance Cost of Love - cost to keep love alive.
  • Opportunity Cost of Love - missed opportunities while you are in love.
  • Break Up Risk of Love - why people are insecure while in love.
    • Risk of Being Dumped - forces that influence people to dump and cheat on their lover.
    • Break Up Cost of Love - why it hurts so bad.