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How Men Fall In Love

And For How Long

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Men In Love 2-Jan-10 2 copyright © Mark Devon 2009

• men can only fall in love with a stranger

• men fall in love after 4 months of daily interaction

• men fall out of love 46 months after meeting a stranger

This seminar will make the following assertions:

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Men in love simultaneously feel three positive emotions

when they see or hear the woman they love.

the sight or sound of familiar people

the sight or sound of women

" The woman I love is happy."

trigger purposepositive emotion

encourage everyone to interact with kinaffection

encourage men to seek womenvisual/audible pleasure

encourage men to support womenmonogynistic love

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Men fall in love 4 months after meeting a woman and

fall out of love 42 months later or 46 months after meeting her.

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months since first meeting a woman

42 months

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After 46 months, men continue to feel

the weaker emotions of visual/audible pleasure and affection.

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monogynistic love

affection

visual/audible pleasure

464

months since first meeting a woman

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Men fall in love when one woman repeatedly triggers their

visual/audible pleasure and affection for 4 months.

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weak

very strong

moderate

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monogynistic love

affection

visual/audible pleasure

464

months since first meeting a woman

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Visual/audible pleasure ensures that men only fall in love with women that

are fertile and were not impregnated by another man before meeting.

visual/audible

pleasure

fertile

not impregnated by another man before meeting

new

not impregnated by another man since meeting

affection

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Visual/audible pleasure is triggered

by the sight or sound of women.

the sight or sound of familiar people

the sight or sound of women

" The woman I love is happy."

trigger purposepositive emotion

encourage everyone to interact with kinaffection

encourage men to seek womenvisual/audible pleasure

encourage men to support womenmonogynistic love

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Visual/audible pleasure is specifically triggered by features

that fertile, non-pregnant women have and other humans do not.

children men fertilenon-pregnant

women

fertilepregnantwomen

post-menopausal

women

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The following are features that

fertile, non-pregnant women have and other humans do not.

narrow waist

non-grey hair

pubic hair

beardless face

feminine voice

8% shorter height

slender appendages

wide hips

plump lips

protruding breasts

hourglass figure

- beards evolved so men do not court men

- pitch and resonance midway between men and children

- 8% is ideal (about 5½" shorter than a 5'10" man)

- face, neck, arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet, toes

- ideal hip-to-waist ratio is 0.7

- combination of protruding breasts, wide hips, narrow waist

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The more exclusive a feature is to fertile, non-pregnant women

the stronger the visual/audible pleasure it triggers in men.

very weak

beardless face

weak

moderate

strong

strength of effect children

fertile pregnantwomen

fertile non-pregnant

women

post-menopausal

womenmen

narrow waist

non-grey hair

pubic hair

feminine voice

8% shorter height

slender appendages

wide hips

plump lips

protruding breasts

hourglass figure

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To fall in love, a man must feel

strong visual/audible pleasure for 4 months.

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weak

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affection

visual/audible pleasure

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months since first meeting a woman

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Strong visual/audible pleasure can only be triggered by an hourglass figure,

which confirms that a woman is fertile and non-pregnant.

very weak

beardless face

weak

moderate

strong

strength of effect children

fertile pregnant women

fertile non-pregnant

women

post-menopausal

womenmen

narrow waist

non-grey hair

pubic hair

feminine voice

8% shorter height

slender appendages

wide hips

plump lips

protruding breasts

hourglass figure

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4 months of strong visual pleasure confirms that a woman

was not impregnated by another man just before meeting.

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months since first meeting a woman

visual/audible pleasure triggered by non-pregnant woman

strong

weak

very strong

moderate

visual/audible pleasure triggered by woman impregnated

just before meeting a man as she loses her hourglass figure

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The visual/audible pleasure that a woman triggers in a man declines over time

which encourages men to maximize the genetic diversity of their offspring.

this is a tangent

strong

weak

very strong

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months since first meeting a woman

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Over 8 years, the visual audible pleasure that Elizabeth Hurley

triggered in Hugh Grant declined enough that . . .

this is a tangent

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19951987

visual/audible pleasure

1988 1989 1990 19921991 19941993

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. . . that Divine Brown, a street prostitute,

became relatively more attractive to Hugh.

this is a tangent

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19951987

visual/audible pleasure

1988 1989 1990 19921991 19941993

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Women frequently change their appearance

to try to slow the decline of visual/audible pleasure.

this is a tangent

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months since first meeting a woman

change appearance frequently

change appearance rarely

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Affection ensures that men only fall in love with women that

are new and have not been impregnated by another man since meeting.

visual/audible

pleasure

fertile

not impregnated by another man before meeting

new

not impregnated by another man since meeting

affection

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Affection is triggered by

the sight or sound of familiar people.

the sight or sound of familiar people

the sight or sound of women

" The woman I love is happy."

trigger purposepositive emotion

encourage everyone to interact with kinaffection

encourage men to seek womenvisual/audible pleasure

encourage men to support womenmonogynistic love

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More specifically, affection is triggered by features

that modern humans have and other primates do not.

arborealprimates

modernhumans

small-brainhumans

terrestrialprimates

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The following are features that modern humans have,

but other primates do not.

bums without tails

feet without opposable toes

- or dancingwalking bipedally

hands with long opposable thumbs

- everted lipseyebrows, white eyes, nose, philtra, lips, chin

- corners of mouth turned up, not showing teethsmiling

talking

- logically sequenced acoustics from human voicesinging, poetry, alliteration

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moderate

weak

strong

strength of effect

small-brain humans

modern humans

terrestrial primates

arboreal primates

bums without tails

feet without opposable toes

walking bipedally

hands with long opposable thumbs

eyebrows, white eyes, nose, philtra, lips, chin

smiling

talking

singing, poetry, alliteration

The more exclusive a feature is to modern humans

the stronger the affection it triggers.

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The affection a feature triggers is stronger

if there is proof of interaction.

• singing to music

• dancing to music

• making eye contact

this is a tangent

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While seeing white eyes

triggers moderate affection . . .

this is a tangent

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. . . making eye contact triggers stronger affection

because it confirms interaction.

this is a tangent

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The affection that someone triggers in you is weak when you meet them

and then grows stronger the more time you spend with that person.

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months since first meeting someone

affection(full-time interaction)

strong

weak

very strong

moderate

affection(part-time interaction)

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To make a man fall in love, a woman must trigger affection in the man

that grows from weak-to-moderate strength in 4 months.

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affection

visual/audible pleasure

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months since first meeting a woman

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Only strangers or new women

can start at weak affection.

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months since first meeting a woman

affection(old flames, family, friends)

strong

weak

very strong

moderate

affection(new women)

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Restricting men to only fall in love with new women

greatly increases the genetic diversity of their offspring.

men only fall in love with new women

men fall in love with one woman for life

child 2woman B

child 3woman C

child 5

child 5child 2 child 3

woman F

woman E

woman D

woman A

woman A

child 6

child 4

child 1

child 6child 4child 1

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New people can only trigger moderate affection by month 4

if they are interacting on a full-time basis.

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months since first meeting someone

affection(part-time interaction)

strong

weak

very strong

moderate

affection(full-time interaction)

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Restricting men to women who interact on full-time basis prevents men from

falling in love with women who could have been simultaneously courting another man.

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months since first meeting someone

affection(part-time with man 1)

strong

weak

very strong

moderate

affection(part-time with man 2)

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Men fall out of love after 42 months

or 46 months after meeting a woman.

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weak

very strong

moderate

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affection

visual/audible pleasure

464

months since first meeting a woman

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Love encourages

men to support women.

the sight or sound of familiar people

the sight or sound of women

" The woman I love is happy."

trigger purposepositive emotion

encourage everyone to interact with kinaffection

encourage men to seek womenvisual/audible pleasure

encourage men to support womenmonogynistic love

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By supporting women,

men are indirectly supporting their children.

women men

monogynisticlove

maternallove

children

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Men maximize the number of two-parent children they have

by starting the next child when the current child no longer needs full-time care.

child no longer needs full-time care

child 5woman E

child 6

child 2woman B

child 3woman C

woman F

woman D

woman A

child 4

child 1

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Children no longer need full-time care when their

first set of teeth have fully erupted at 33 months.

• before their first set of teeth fully erupt, children need assistance to eat

• mothers must first breastfeed, then transfer of masticated food to their children

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Adding 9 months of gestation to 33 months of post-natal care

equals a total support time of 42 months.

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42 monthstotal support time

9 monthsgestation

33 monthspost-natal support

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There is ample evidence that men

do not love one woman forever.

• fireworks do not continue

• the 50% divorce rate

• affection keeps the other 50% together

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Based on 2002 US Census Data,

the average length of first marriages is 44 months.

womenmen

44 monthsaverage length of marriage

3.7 yearsaverage length of marriage

3.73.6average length of marriage

25.326.9average age at first marriage

29.030.5average age at first divorce

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Assuming 16 months of courtship and 44 months of marriage,

couples typically divorce 14 months after the man falls out of love.

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