I was recently having a discussion with a friend of mine, we'll call her Linda, about love.  Linda told me that her mom once advised her that in a relationship the man should love the woman more.  Well it got me thinking, is this true?  For a relationship to work does the man need to be more in love with the woman than she is with him? Linda recently took the advice to heart and stayed with a man she knew she didn't love the way he loved her.  She stayed because she thinks this statement should be true.  He loved…

Ever wonder why after you have sex with someone you seem to be more attached to them? Well Dr. Helen Fischer, the creator of Chemistry.com’s online questionnaire and advisor to Chemistry.com, says she has the answer. Dr. Fischer spoke at the International Matchmaker's Conference hosted by the Matchmaking Institute and she has been studying the biological theory of love for years. I found her theories fascinating! She says everything we associate with love (butterflies in our stomach, euphoria, sweaty palms, obsessively thinking about the other person, etc) can be explained by the hormones or chemicals released by our body. For example, sex…