When it comes to things from the heart, men from Mars and women come from Venus – that's how popular theory goes.
And now the differences between men and women in love are exposed by scientists.
They say that men are confiscated in a relationship with their partners a month earlier in a relationship than women – and will probably take the first step to say 'I love you'.
They also fall in love more often on average. But as little surprise, it can be that women are more dedicated and have more intense romantic feelings as soon as those feelings are cemented, so that more than half of their awake hours think of their partners.
Researchers from Australian National University say that the differences may be due to congenital priorities: men are driven by the need to have many different partners, while women are more picky and are looking for 'quality' over quantity in a relationship.
Researchers interviewed more than 800 people aged 18 to 25 who were in love in a romantic relationship.
They discovered that men had been in love with about 12 percent more often than women – on average 2.6 times compared to 2.3.
Men were also almost twice as much chance than women to fall in love before a relationship officially started. They also fell in love faster – on average, a month earlier than women.
Men were almost twice as much chance than women to fall in love before a relationship officially started (Stock Image)
Researchers interviewed more than 800 people aged 18 to 25 who were in love in a romantic relationship (stock image)
Women are more careful and need an average of 1.92 months to develop intense feelings. But as soon as those feelings start, women thought of their beloved 54 percent of their awake hours (stock image)
Women are more careful and need an average of 1.92 months to develop intense feelings. But as soon as those feelings start, women thought of their loved one 54 percent of their awake hours compared to 44 percent for men.
“Falling in love a month earlier offers a greater chance of using romantic love to promote dating, to demonstrate romantic love as an honest signal of dedication,” write the researchers in the magazine biology of sex differences.
'Men will have fallen in love rather than women, because the male fitness landscape promotes the amount of potential partners above quality, while the opposite is true for women.
“All this is consistent with the sex difference in partners selection, where women are picky than men.”
