Maintenance Cost of Love

1. Stressful events will increase breakups.
2. Couple with many similarities will be happier than couples with few similarities.
3. Couples with good conflict resolution skills will less likely breakup.

1. Pursue people who have good stress tolerance and coping skills.
2. Pursue people who are similar to you.
3. Learn good communication and conflict resolution skills.
4. Avoid pursuing people with emotional problems.

1. Many people using online dating services are very successful.
2. Career-driven people marry at a later age.
3. Busy people are bad relationship candidates for people who need a lot of emotional support or attention.

1. Undermine love interest's dream of making it big, especially after he/she fails. Caution: If love interest makes it, you are history.
2. Convince love interest that you are very low maintenance and you need a lot of space as well.
3. Join love interest in his/her pursuit of his/her dreams. Be his/her study buddy, training buddy, or business partner.

1. Pursue people who are just as ambitious as you.
2. Do not pursue people who require a lot of attention or support.
3. Stagger your life by first focusing on career, then finding your soulmate.

1. Long-distance relationships usually do not work.
2. Having children, while rewarding, costs money.

1. Pursue someone who is ambitious or has a financially rewarding career.
2. Make sure you make enough money to fulfill lover's materialistic desires.
3. Pursue fellow apartment tenants, co-workers, or students. Avoid long-distance relationship if you can not afford it.
4. Buy long-distance lover a high-speed Internet connection to videoconference.
5. Do not have children or a large family.
6. Do a credit check on love interest.

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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.