Mary Milan loves reading the MSN Love and Relationships page because, according to her, it’s an easy to read digest of all of the relationship psychology research that she doesn’t have time to keep up with. So yesterday, doing her daily MSN check, she uncovered these interesting love facts.

One of interesting facts the article cites is from a study from the University of Piza which actually proves that men get “whipped” in the beginning of relationships:

For this, you can thank your hormones, which, researchers from the University of Pisa in Italy found out, fluctuate like mad when a new relationship blooms. When guys are smitten, they experience a drop in their body’s levels of testosterone, a hormone linked to aggressive, sometimes domineering behavior.

Sensitive guy’s take: Yeah! Of course. I want that dip in testasterone so that I can effectively bond, take care of, and tend and befriend my future wife. I don’t care about drinking beers with the boys anymore. My love will sustain me.

Cynical guy’s take: Whatever. I do such a good job at tricking girls so that they’ll sleep with me that even my body is fooled into thinking that I have decreased testasterone levels.

And, according to mathematician Clio Cresswell if you’ve gone on 12 or more dates, you’ve probably already met your soul mate and you should marry the next person who you get on pretty well:

“Check out and reject 12 people, then pick the next best that comes along, and you’re likely to have a very good match on your hands,” says Clio Cresswell, a mathematician and author of Mathematics and Sex. That’s because when it comes to decision-making, formulas reveal that your chances of picking the right answer improve as you expose yourself to more options. But there does come a point when you are over-researching: If you date and reject 30 or more potential mates, “you’ve probably met someone that you could possibly have been more than happy with, and passed them over,’ notes Cresswell.

Sensitive guy’s take: Yeah! I made the right choice with the girl I sacrificed all of my male friends for.

Cynical guy’s take: Who said I was looking for a mate?

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