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Jul 10, 2024 | 
yourtango.com | Melanie Gorman |Helen Fisher |Foojan Zeine |Marta Rocha
If the Ashley Madison hack from years ago taught us anything, it's that more people feel the DESIRE to cheat than go through with it. While the former Ashley Madison CEO previously claimed a 1:1 ratio between men and women under 30 on the site, the hack revealed that only 15 percent of Ashley Madison's members were women. The notion that men and women cheat in equal volumes is false.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
yourtango.com | Lucy Brown |Helen Fisher
In today’s liberated world, hookup culture is rampant. Take a look around any bar on a Saturday night, and you’ll find lots of people getting ready to go home with someone they just met. While some bemoan the lack of “traditional values” and clearly defined dating rules, relationship experts have begun to realize the power of the hookup.
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May 2, 2024 | 
yourtango.com | Lucy Brown |Helen Fisher
Romantic love is as ancient as time itself, and it has long been considered the province of philosophers and poets. After all, it causes waves of euphoria and torment that seem to come crashing down at the slightest provocation, defying all reason or logic. It tends to manifest just at the moment we aren’t looking for it, and often the person with whom we fall in love makes very little sense to our friends and relatives.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
yourtango.com | Lucy Brown |Helen Fisher
Means-goals relations analysis is a method of looking at relationships based on how well the partners help each other to achieve their life goals. Each person is the means to the other’s goals.
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Jan 14, 2024 | 
yourtango.com | Lucy Brown |Helen Fisher
Every person and every relationship is unique. A deal-breaker for you might be a must-have quality for someone else. It is important to make your own list of ideal qualities for a potential mate to possess, and to identify which ones are absolutely essential to you. However, no matter who you are or where you are in life, there are a few basic factors that are critical to long-term relationship success. Here are 7 non-negotiable qualities of a partner who is worthy of your love.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
yourtango.com | Lucy Brown |Helen Fisher
History is filled with examples of lovers who claim to have fallen in love at first sight. It might even have happened to you — seeing a mysterious, magnetic stranger across the room, you feel irresistibly drawn to that person. You might even be compelled to start a conversation that lasts all night. By morning, you are certain you have found your soulmate. Or, perhaps you fail to seize the moment, and your mysterious stranger disappears into the crowd, lost to you forever.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
yourtango.com | Helen Fisher
Smart is the new sexy, says Dr. Helen Fisher. By Helen Fisher Written on Sep 08, 2023Photo: SanneBerg, cyano66, andGeber86 / Getty Images via Canva Is “smart” sexy? Singles think so. Today some 80% of singles say they “must have” or find it “very important” to have someone of the same level of intelligence. And 89% would make a commitment to someone who is “considerably” better educated or more intellectual than themselves.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
yourtango.com | Helen Fisher
Some things are meant to be — like Superman and Wonder Woman falling in love. Ever wonder why that is? Turns out, there's science behind this magnetism between high-testosterone males and high-estrogen females that makes Superman and Wonder Woman's romance more than just a fictional story. Superman is the high-testosterone savior writ large. An acute sense of justice and fairness are traits linked with the testosterone system in the brain.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
yourtango.com | Helen Fisher
Dr. Helen Fisher suspects the reason men don't like the question "What are you thinking?" goes back millions of years. By Helen Fisher Written on Sep 06, 2023Photo: SIphotography from Getty Images I am not entirely sure why men hate it when women ask “What are you thinking?” But I have a hunch. I used to ask people that question quite a bit, actually, and I never really got anyone to answer. Anyone other than my sister, that is.
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Aug 22, 2023 | 
yourtango.com | Helen Fisher
Many women and girls dream about their future weddings, even before the meet their spouse. They may sit and wonder where it will be. On a mountaintop? At a beach resort? In your hometown with all your friends around? Women spend a lot of time planning their weddings, and that's considered socially acceptable. But what hasn't been acceptable for women to do?
