Love myths

People often harbour several misconceptions about love and relationships. These myths are created by pulp fiction most of the time. Let us examine some of them.

Love at first sight is not true. It is a way of rationalising our feelings of sexual arousal and giving them a dignified label.

Physical appearances influence attraction and physical attraction influences our expectations about other people’s personalities and behaviour.

Men do not prefer women who are hard to get. If a man prefers something like this, it is more about the conquest than anything else.

College-going girls fall in love more frequently than boys at that age. But college-going boys fall in love more quickly.

Men hang on longer to a dying love affair than women, and women end more romances than men.

Now we know why the suicide figures for men are higher than they are for women when it comes to suicides due to relationship failure. Having said that, the question arises — how to maintain love and relationships effectively The writer is a sexologist. Mail him at dr.narayana@deccanmail.com