Men want to think women don’t cheat, and women want men to think they don’t cheat, and therefore the sexes have been playing a little psychological game with each other.
A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you’d be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.
Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.
You’ve got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.
Like most animals, we’re wired to associate height with power.
As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone – to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.
You size up someone physically in less than one second – too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.
I’ve always maintained that men were more romantic than women.
Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you’re young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.
I can’t conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.
I was married and divorced at 23.
If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn’t eat, sleep or work.
In America, we are demanding everything from our marriage.
Neither gender is routinely more jealous – although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.
Hair that looks like it’s been naturally sun-bleached makes you seem youthful, like you spend a lot of time outdoors. And that appeals to most people.
There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn’t pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again.
When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue.
Whether you’re married or not, relationships – and the satisfaction tied to them – are extremely important for increasing men’s and women’s quality of life.
Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing.