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The General Theory Of Love

Assumptions: 1. All people are of the same quality. 2. All people are constrainted maximizers. 3. One can only stay with an opposite sex at a time.



In this passage I would like to make a hypothesis to explain and predict how long a person will stay with his/her mate. It may be wrong, but it is interesting.



When one stays with his/her mate, he/she forgoes the chance to stay with another opposite sex. If he/she expects he/she can find a better mate, he/she will leave his/her existing mate and go into "market". But he/she bears a risk that his/her expectation may be wrong - there may not be a better opposite sex available to him/her in "market".



The higher the risk that his/her expectation may be wrong, the more reluctant to leave his/her existing mate one is. The lower the risk, the lesser reluctant to leave his/her existing mate is. In other words, given a lower risk one will not stay with his/her existing mate long.



You may argue that my......


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