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A Formula for Lasting Love
Wednesday 12th March 2014 | Bloddick
If you really feel like converting your feelings into numbers, the formula for lasting love goes like this:
L = 8 + .5Y - .2P + .9Hm + .3Mf + J - .3G - .5(Sm - Sf)2 + I + 1.5C
A Research commissioned by MSN has revealed a new love equation that determines the key ingredients to a successful, long-lasting relationship. This is what the variables stand for:
L: The predicted length in years of the relationship
Y: The number of years the two people knew each other before the relationship became serious
P: The number of previous partners of both people added together
Hm: The importance the male partner attaches to honesty in the relationship
Mf : The importance the female attaches to money in the relationship
J: The importance both attach to humour (added together)
G: The importance both attach to good looks (added together)
Sm and Sf = The importance male and female attach to sex
I = The importance attached to having good in-laws (added together)
C= The importance attached to children in the relationship (added together)
Note: All 'importance' measures can be scaled from 1 to 5 where 1 is not important at all and 5 is very important.
Research findings for same sex couples differed slightly from heterosexual couples and so the formula changes slightly in light of this to L = 8 + .5Y - .2P + 2J - .3G - .5(S1 - S2)2 - I + 1.5C (where S1 and S2 are the two partner’s ratings for the importance of sex).
So what do you think? Is the formula accurate?
