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What Makes Men Fall in Love?


It’s a baffling question: Is there some specific moment or event that makes a guy suddenly decide “Yes, I think I love her”? Well, the answer isn’t clear-cut, but there are some general principles. “Men have certain innate needs that must be met before they truly feel connected to you,” says Paul Dobransky, MD, author of The Secret Psychology of How We Fall in Love. “When a guy realizes, consciously or not, that you’re ideal on all these levels, that’s when he’ll commit.”

Boiled down, guys have four primal relationship desires that are sometimes sated by the tiniest of moves by you. Here, experts explain with examples so you can put these insights to use when your guy is at the brink.

Read more: What Makes Men Fall in Love - Relationship Tips and Advice - Cosmopolitan 


Five Ways to make anyone fall in love with you


In her book, Superflirt, Tracey Cox reveals five simple tricks that you can use to make just about anyone fall in love with you. You won't believe how easy it is to win over the object of your affection

Some people will read this and think what I'm suggesting is wrong. I admit it's about manipulating and meddling with people's emotions, most particularly, people you wish to God would meddle with you. In an ideal world, I'd agree; it would be preferable if everyone you wanted just fell in your lap without having to play games. Unfortunately, real life doesn't always work that way.

Sometimes you can spend six months living, breathing, dripping, drooling, loving and lusting after someone with zero result. And it's when that happens that the techniques that follow suddenly seem like a gift from heaven. Besides, it's not like I'm proposing black magic or suggesting any of these techniques will force someone to fall in love with you against their will (if they did, I'd currently be shacked up with Brad Pitt). What they will do though is nudge the odds a lot higher in your favour. Is that really so bad? I don't think so. Go on, keep reading. You know you want to...

1. Hang around lots...but then be unavailable

The more you interact with someone, the more they'll like you, says David Lieberman, an expert in human behaviour. He's right actually. Several studies show repeated exposure to practically any stimulus makes us like it more (the only time it doesn't hold true is if our initial reaction to it is negative). So forget about being aloof, evasive, and unavailable in the beginning. Instead, find lots of excuses to spend time with him.

Now, pay attention, because this is the tricky part. Just when you're convinced you've won them over and they like you, start being a little less available. And then even less, until they hardly see you at all.

You've now effectively instigated the 'law of scarcity'. We all know this one: people want what they can't have and by constantly being available, you diminish your value. If every time you walked outside your front door there was a huge pile of diamonds to step over, you'd hardly see them as precious would you? The law of scarcity only makes them want you. Be around and then not around and they'll want and like you. I'm stating the obvious here, but liking someone is important.

We talk endlessly about chemistry, passion, sexual attraction, and even more about love, yet the word 'like' rarely gets a mention. Opposites don't attract long-term; we search for similarities in a partner. Most of us can't see the point in hanging around friends we don't like, so why do it with a lover? Liking someone is more important long-term than actually loving them. It's not just similarities in our personalities that count. If you go out with someone who looks like you, they're four times more likely to fall in love with you!

2. Don't do nice things for them. Let them do nice things for you

If you do something nice for someone, it makes you feel good on two levels. You feel pleased with yourself and warm toward the person you've just spoiled. To justify the effort or expense, we often over-idealise how wonderful he is to deserve it! End result: we like the person more. When someone does something nice for us, we're pleased. But there are a whole lot of other emotions that come into play, and they're not all good.

Sometimes we feel overwhelmed. There's pressure to live up to being the wonderful person who inspired such a gift/act, not to mention pressure to return the favour. It's even trickier if the 'nice thing' comes from someone you like very much but aren't sure about yet. Got the point? When we're infatuated with someone, we're desperate to do nice things for them. You're much better off letting him spoil you.

3. Give them the eye

Harvard psychologist Zick Rubin set out to see if he could measure love scientifically and achieved it by recording the amount of time lovers spent staring at each other. He discovered that couples who are deeply in love look at each other 75 per cent of the time when talking and are slower to look away when someone else dares to intrude.

In normal conversation, people look at each other between 30 and 60 per cent of the time. The significance of what's now known as Rubin's Scale is obvious. It's possible to tell how 'in love' people are by measuring the amount of time they spend gazing adoringly. Some psychologists still use it during counseling to work out how much affection couples feel for each other. It also happens to be remarkably handy information if you want to make someone fall in love with you.

Here's how it works: If you look at someone you like 75 per cent of the time when they're talking to you, you trick their brain. The brain knows the last time that someone looked at them that long and often, it meant they were in love. So it thinks okay, I'm obviously in love with this person as well, and starts to release phenylethylamine (PEA). PEA is a chemical cousin to amphetamines and is secreted by the nervous system when we first fall in love.

PEA is what makes our palms sweat, our tummies flip over, and our hearts race. The more PEA the person you want has pumping through the bloodstream, the more likely he is to fall in love with you.

While you can't honestly force someone to adore you if they're not remotely interested (they won't let you look into their eyes for that long, for a start!), it is entirely possible to kick-start the production of PEA using this technique. Try it. I think you'll be pretty impressed with the results. Give someone the sensation of feeling in love whenever they're with you, and it's not such a huge leap of logic for him to finally decide that he is!

4. Don't look away

There was another crucial finding from Rubin's research: The couples took longer to look away when someone else joined the conversation. Again, if you do this to someone who's not in love with you (yet), you trick his brain into thinking he is, and even more PEA floods into his bloodstream. Relationships expert Leil Lownes calls this technique making 'toffee eyes'. Simply lock eyes with the person you like and keep them there, even when he has finished talking or someone else joins the conversation.

When you eventually do drag your eyes away (three or four seconds later), do it slowly and reluctantly, as though they're attached by warm toffee. This technique may not sound terribly inspired but, believe me, if done properly it can literally take your breath away. If you're too shy to gaze openly, skip the toffee and think bouncing ball. Look away and at the other person who's joined the conversation, but every time they finish a sentence, let your eyes bounce back to the person you're interested in. This is a checking gesture - you're checking his reaction to what the speaker is saying - and lets him know you're more interested in him than the other person.

5. Practice pupillometrics

We all know 'bedroom eyes' when we see them: it's the look of lust. There's just one thing you need for bedroom eyes: big pupils. According to 'pupillometrics', the science of pupil study, this is the crucial element we respond to. You can't consciously control your pupils (one reason why people say the eyes don't lie). But you can create the right conditions to inspire large pupils and get the effect.

First, reduce light. Our pupils expand when they're robbed of it, one reason why candlelight and dimmer switches are de rigueur in romantic restaurants. It's not just the softening of light that makes our faces appear more attractive, larger pupils also help.

Scientists showed two sets of pictures of a woman's face to men. The photograph was identical, except for one thing; the pupils in one set had been doctored to make them larger. When shown the doctored photograph, men judged the woman as twice more attractive than when shown the real photo. It was repeated with a man's face and tested on women and gave the same result.

Our pupils also enlarge when we look at something we like. Again, this can be proved using pictures. This time, researchers put a picture of a naked woman into a pile of otherwise bland, commonplace photographs then watched men's pupil size when they flicked through them. Without exception, the men's pupils expanded on cue.

This means if you're attracted to someone a lot, your pupils are probably already big, black holes. All good. To ensure this is happening or to up the effect of your bedroom eyes, focus on the part of the person you like the most.

On second thought, better make it the next best thing!

Tips

• on't be afraid to talk to him. What's the worst that can happen?
• Remember that patience is a virtue.
• Be understanding. Listen to what he has to say don't go over him.
• Compliment him. Guys love this!
• Don't flirt with his close friends. This will just end up with fights between mates.
• Never keep hanging on to him when he isn't interested. Men find it annoying when you show up at their house and just won't leave.
• Learn to take a hint. If the man starts doing something different while you are talking to him, shut up. Wait until he starts talking to you again or quietly help him with what he's doing. Don't try to force his attention to you.
• Don't put him in a compromising position. Men care about how you feel, even if they are not interested in you romantically. Don't force them to answer a question if they look uncomfortable with it.
• Be very patient. Men sometimes like more than one girl at a time. (If this is the case then he is not ready for a relationship and should therefore be put in the friend category. Fun to hang around with, but not deserving of the cookies.)
• Don't appear/be too easy, and yet don't be stuck-up and snobbish. A man doesn't want to think he's never getting any sex, but he also doesn't want to get it that easy. Guys like a challenge.
• Do not get between him and his friends. A man will always put his mates before you, unfortunately you need to accept this, or his friends might think of a way to get rid of you.
• Don't say you love him if you don't really mean it, they might become obsessive. Also, don't say those three little words until you reckon he loves you too.
• Don't cheat. If he loves you and you don't love him, tell him that in a calm and caring manner. People get hurt when a man's ego gets smacked down.
• Be what he needs. Be sure to have that something he cannot live without, you don't have to be pretty to be precious.
• Don't put on too much make-up. Xmas trees are not hot. Natural is the best.
• Don't get an attitude when you see something on T.V. In fact, don't pull an attitude for any dumb reason. Men think you are immature if you have an attitude.
• Respect him if he respects you. Do not shoot down everything he says if he listens to every word you say. This is pretty much both ways.
• Don't get mad if he puts down a sports team you like. You will always be more important than sports.
• Be the jealous girl. Guys Like to know that you care enough to get jealous.
• Don't make him feel worthless by ranting on and on about your exes. If you say what you dislike in your exes, he might be put off, as most men have the same faults, like leaving the toilet seat up or biting their nails.
• Don't be annoying and obsessive; if he says he wants to be just friends, accept it, but show that you're not giving up.
• Give him enough space. Let him hang out with his friends, and once in a while say that you can't come. This will make you find out if he really wants you to be around him or not.
• Smile at him whenever you are looking at him, this makes him to feel there is someone can share his feelings
• Hug him with feeling so that he knows there's something there.
• be his friend before you start to get close to him, cause some guys might not have a very good personality as you thought.
• Ask him questions about what he likes, find things in common

Warnings

• You don't want to look like a stalker! Therefore, only tell a few close friends you are interested in him.
• Don't look at him too much. If you do, he might feel that you're too easy and won't be interested.
• If you want to catch his eye do something but don't keep staring or people will notice and point it out, and he'll get put off.
• When he comes on MSN/Instant messenger don't talk to him straight away, you will seem obsessed and annoying.
• Don't text them every day either, there will be nothing to talk about in person and he will get annoyed.
• Don't text him over and over again if he doesn't reply to your first text. That will make him annoyed.
• Don't hang out with him more than your real friends.
• Don't act flirty with other guys

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