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Commitment to Love

Net benefit from your lover will fluctuate. Sometimes your net benefit is high. Other times it will be low or even negative. Commitment means that you will not abandon your lover when your net benefit is low or negative. Commitment levels vary from person to person. Some people can take more pain and suffering than others.

If you feel that net benefit will eventually increase, you will be more committed. If you are able to find another love that will provide you more net benefit than the existing one, you will be less committed. Also, if your breakup cost is great, you will be more committed. Breakup cost will be explained in Chapter 4. Mathematically, commitment is written as:

Commitment

future net benefit - future net benefit from another love +
current breakup cost

Insights and Predictions

There is nothing sacred about commitment.
The main purpose of marriage is to increase breakup cost resulting in commitment.

Tactics to Increase Commitment

Play hard to get. See how committed your love interest is to you.
Make lover prove his/her commitment by making him/her your bitch.
Work hard to increase net benefit of lover while he/she is with you.
Increase lover's breakup cost. (See Chapter 4)

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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.

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