Love Search Cost: Your Social Networking Skills

1. People who have superior social networking skills to meet potential lover may have a harder time falling in love and can afford to be more selective.
2. People who use online dating services are usually more selective because they may feel they have the largest social networks.
3. People will commit when the time, money, and energy spent to expand and maintain their social network become too great.
4. People who are popular can breakup easier than those who are shy.
5. Physically attractive people without social networking skills are worse off than average looking people with superior social networking skills.
6. People who are surrounded by eligible and attractive potential lovers will stay less committed.

1. Tell love interest that being shy is a good thing.
2. Prevent love interest from joining an online dating service. Comment that you pity people using online dating services; that those people are so scary and desperate. Clip out news articles about people who have been killed, raped, or molested using online dating service or chat rooms and report them to love interest.
3. Convince love interest that his/her new friends are creeps and are bad for him/her.

1. Join Toastmasters to conquer your fear of public speaking.
2. Conquer your shyness. Become a schmoozer by learning how to make and keep friends.
3. Join an online dating service.
4. Go on many dates as possible and always keep them as friends.

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.
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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.