John Bowe wanted a successful relationship. So he asked 2,000 people for advice.

Poets and scholars have been asking for centuries whether there is a secret to staying in love. One hapless bachelor decided there was really only one way to find out. After several failed relationships, John Bowe, a 45-year-old New York author, asked 2,000 people for advice. In a series of interviews, Bowe asked them about their experiences of love and how to make it succeed. The resulting book, Us: Americans Talk About Love, was published last month and is now a much-discussed bestseller. . So what has he learnt about lasting love?

Affair to remember.

A striking accessory like a flower in your hair or a piece of jewelery could be a conversation-starter.

Lessons for women.

After a recent surge of male ‘pick-up schools’, one has now started for women.

It seems then that flirting is more about learning to be liked, not learning to be fancied. From what I saw, the pick-up theory for the boys is far less advanced.

This study says that men are likely to disappoint you on valentines day.

Please let us know that this is not true.

SMITTEN: Smooching and hugging release hormones that encourage couples to bond, experts say.

“The salad leaves are meant to say, ‘I’m pretty; I’m attractive; I take care of myself’,”

Brain food?

Cheating on a spouse or significant other is sure to cause feelings of jealousy and hurt in the spurned partner.

But men and women differ on what part of cheating they think is the worst: Men tend to be more bothered by sexual infidelity, while most women are bothered more by emotional infidelity.

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I like her angle, a normal woman who shares her experiences in hope that other women don’t make the same mistake.

I see  lot of truth in what she shares and believe you can train men in the art of loving or even living.

“If you think all men are commitment-phobes, then commitment-phobes are clearly the only kind of man you date,”