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18 Aug 2011, 12:32 pm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... -date.html

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Staggeringly, nearly one in four men said they believed in 'love at first sight' and knew whether a girl was 'the one' within seconds.

The research also revealed the average British man falls in love just over three times compared to the average women, only falls in love once.


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The study found a large percentage of men claim to have loved someone who didn't love them back.

Men were also more likely to say 'I love you' first and were also more likely than women to pine after their first love.


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Men were also more likely to regret splitting up with their first girlfriend.

Women were more likely to be happy with the decisions they have made and more realistic about how happy they were in the first place.

Although women were more likely to try and track their ex-partner down over the internet and keep track on him and who he is dating.


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18 Aug 2011, 12:37 pm

Yikes! That is all. Very interesting, Moog!



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18 Aug 2011, 12:48 pm

I saw this article on Facebook and I guess I would have to agree. My bf seems to be smitten with me and I'm taking longer to warm up with him before declaring love. :lol:



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18 Aug 2011, 12:51 pm

This kind of data never seems very useful to me. There's so much variation among both men and women that looking at what happens "on average" seems like a bad predictor of what will happen in any given situation.



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18 Aug 2011, 12:55 pm

bicentennialman wrote:
This kind of data never seems very useful to me. There's so much variation among both men and women that looking at what happens "on average" seems like a bad predictor of what will happen in any given situation.


Okay!

I wouldn't take it so seriously either, it's just some tabloid report. Trends and averages are interesting to me, though I'd never take that information and use it in isolation.

Maybe you can describe your own response to love, and how it differs from what is presented here.

And Erisad; yeah I stole this from Henbane's FB page... thought the L & D crew might like to read it.


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18 Aug 2011, 1:03 pm

I would just say that since this study likely had a large sample of NTs, I'm not inclined to judge myself accordingly. No offense meant, Moog ;)

I spent a good deal of my teens and 20's beating myself up because I didn't fit into the NT bell curve. This was before I knew of my AS...or what AS was for that matter. It's taken a good number of years to recover from that self-flagellation.



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18 Aug 2011, 1:04 pm

Moog wrote:
And Erisad; yeah I stole this from Henbane's FB page... thought the L & D crew might like to read it.


That's what I thought but I didn't wanna point fingers. :lol:



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18 Aug 2011, 1:16 pm

I could believe that (I won't, but entertaining thought nonetheless)

I think that boys these days are traditionally raised to not be "emotional", but as a result, they don't understand their emotional nature, and fail to educate themselves accordingly, and end up becoming slaves to their emotions, in subtle ways anyway. And I think this definitely manifests itself in dating and relationships. These days I see a lot of guys "falling in love" pretty quickly, it's kinda weird lol.


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18 Aug 2011, 1:38 pm

My first boyfriend who was also my first love seemed very into me only because I reminded him of his first love apparently. He did repent a lot about breaking up with his first girl-friend.



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18 Aug 2011, 2:20 pm

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18 Aug 2011, 2:21 pm

I have to say there's probably a bit of truth to this.


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18 Aug 2011, 2:51 pm

i assumed females were quicker to fall in love and tended to fall in love more often. i was obviously wrong. i tend to fall in love very quickly, but i had no idea that maybe i could be different from some other females.


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18 Aug 2011, 2:55 pm

I think it's because men are simpler than women are as far as what they need in a partner, so it all makes sense. As for the last part, women are more likely to be passive aggressive, so that might indicate a higher likelihood of Internet tracking. After all, guys usually aren't as bad when it comes to other guys dating their ex.

So yeah ladies, if you can cook, clean, and give good blowjobs, then men will fall in love with you all the time. To this day, men still aren't sure what it is that women want.



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18 Aug 2011, 2:57 pm

Mindslave wrote:
I think it's because men are simpler than women are as far as what they need in a partner, so it all makes sense. As for the last part, women are more likely to be passive aggressive, so that might indicate a higher likelihood of Internet tracking. After all, guys usually aren't as bad when it comes to other guys dating their ex.

So yeah ladies, if you can cook, clean, and give good blowjobs, then men will fall in love with you all the time. To this day, men still aren't sure what it is that women want.


Wow, I so wish this were true! :wink:

Oh, yeah, I forgot. I have some requirements, too...



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18 Aug 2011, 3:01 pm

hyperlexian wrote:
i assumed females were quicker to fall in love and tended to fall in love more often. i was obviously wrong. i tend to fall in love very quickly, but i had no idea that maybe i could be different from some other females.


I don't fall in love easily.


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18 Aug 2011, 3:04 pm

Mindslave wrote:
I think it's because men are simpler than women are as far as what they need in a partner, so it all makes sense. As for the last part, women are more likely to be passive aggressive, so that might indicate a higher likelihood of Internet tracking. After all, guys usually aren't as bad when it comes to other guys dating their ex.

So yeah ladies, if you can cook, clean, and give good blowjobs, then men will fall in love with you all the time. To this day, men still aren't sure what it is that women want.


I think it has more to do with social conditioning than anything else.


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