It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.

Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.

Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this "mortal coil."

Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.

Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.