by Guest » Fri Dec 19, 2008 4:48 pm
Just my experience.
Relationships are attraction + investment. You has to maintain the attraction of the girl in order get her to build investment. If someone with enough attraction comes along to out attract the previous mates attraction+investment, she will leave the previous mate and trade up. I have known very few women who will leave a guy without there being someone waiting in the wings.
I think that's the real reason guys get married. If they have enough attraction and investment to get the marriage, that vow increases investment. If you stop attracting the girl the investment will lessen until it it's gone. Once you have that investment, you can throw her an attraction bone every now and then to keep the investment up. I girl will not cheat if you have a lot of investment and you do things to keep her attracted. She is not likely to cheat even if she is no longer attracted but there is a lot of investment. I call that the "bon bon effect." If she lives in a nice home and can sit at home and eat bon bons, she won't cheat because she may loose all that. Now AFC guys think they can depend on the bon bon effect to keep the women they have but as soon as someone of higher value comes along that can give her the couch and bon bons, she's gone.
I know a woman like this, a friend of my brothers. Has a nice house, car and social life and won't leave her husband because he keeps her in the Mercedes. But she has hinted around that she wants to play but isn't willing to do it because she might get caught. If she found a rich guy who was interested that she was attracted to, she'd be gone.
By the way, both comfort and seduction are part of investment. If you build comfort she will have the investment to be seduced. If she sleeps with you, that increases investment further.