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Why We Fall in Love?
The mutual attraction is one of the main factors for humans who search love. The main qualities that people wish in a partner, determine to whom we are attracted to and what strategies are effective to attract the desired person. All around the world usually people look for kind, understanding, intelligent, reliable, emotionally stable, undemanding, attractive and healthy persons. However, cultures differ greatly in the importance they give to certain qualities. For example, virginity is a quality virtually indispensable to almost all Chinese, but irrelevant to the majority of Swedes and Dutch.
Men around the world give more importance to youth and physical attractiveness qualities recognized as important signs of fertility and future reproductive potential of women. Women everywhere want ambitious men, whith a decent social status, resources or having the potential to acquire and usually they prefer few years older than them, because throughout human history, the children of women has survived and thrived best when the woman has chosen a rich man, committed to invest his resources in his family.
Usually the intelligent and educated people tend to marry people with whom they can share their ideas. Usually attractive and sexy people, look for attractive and sexy couples. It has no sense to insist on the mistakes in the beloved partner when we fall in love, In fact, a recent study indicates that most people manifest the "dream lover" over-optimistic about their chances of marital success. So, love can blind us in two ways: first, allowing us to conform to someone who does not look like our fantasy of the ideal, and second, making us optimistic about the future of our romance, and thus increasing the likelihood of actually succeed.
The evolutionary economist Robert Frank says that love is the solution to the problem of commitment: If we chose our partner for rational reasons, She or he, could leave us for the same rational reasons to find someone slightly more desirable according to its criteria "rational." But love is stronger than rationality. It is the emotion that ensures that our partners will not leave when I came across someone more desirable. Love is the opium of the body and the mind, that tells us that the adaptive problem of mate selection, sexual satisfaction, devotion and loyalty has been resolved successfully. The payment is that, as time past, the drug is losing strength. Some ppl use then the train of "hedonism", in the continuing searching for ecstasy that produces the love, and that take them to repeat the behaviour, always searching new achievements to have once more the delirium, although it never reachs the same intensity.
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