John Bowe wanted a successful relationship. So he asked 2,000 people for advice.

Poets and scholars have been asking for centuries whether there is a secret to staying in love. One hapless bachelor decided there was really only one way to find out. After several failed relationships, John Bowe, a 45-year-old New York author, asked 2,000 people for advice. In a series of interviews, Bowe asked them about their experiences of love and how to make it succeed. The resulting book, Us: Americans Talk About Love, was published last month and is now a much-discussed bestseller. . So what has he learnt about lasting love?

I love reading such beautiful love stories.

Affair to remember.

Ollivier’s book cites the French feminist Sylviane Agacinski saying that “there will never be a war of the sexes in France. We want the power to seduce and be seduced”. Ollivier also stressed in our conversation that the French romantic confidence, perceived as arrogance by outsiders, is key to their success.

A striking accessory like a flower in your hair or a piece of jewelery could be a conversation-starter.

Lessons for women.

After a recent surge of male ‘pick-up schools’, one has now started for women.

It seems then that flirting is more about learning to be liked, not learning to be fancied. From what I saw, the pick-up theory for the boys is far less advanced.

Men are struggling when it comes to modern day chivalry, a study has found.

This study says that men are likely to disappoint you on valentines day.

Please let us know that this is not true.

They try to get to the bottom of long-term romance and how it affects our emotional and physical well-being.

SMITTEN: Smooching and hugging release hormones that encourage couples to bond, experts say.

An academic study dishes up food for thought.

“The salad leaves are meant to say, ‘I’m pretty; I’m attractive; I take care of myself’,”

Brain food?

Paradoxically we initially like narcissists more because of their exploitative, entitled behavior—but it doesn’t last long.

Why men and women get jealous for different reasons.

Cheating on a spouse or significant other is sure to cause feelings of jealousy and hurt in the spurned partner.

But men and women differ on what part of cheating they think is the worst: Men tend to be more bothered by sexual infidelity, while most women are bothered more by emotional infidelity.

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