Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.

Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.

Romantic love is an addiction.

There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.

In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.