10 unnecessary ridiculous facts about love & relationships

‘Her eyes, her eyes. Make the stars look like they’re not shinin’. Her hair, her hair. Falls perfectly without her trying. She’s so beautiful… And I tell her everyday.’ Oh, a song sweeter than sweet by the one and only Bruno Mars. Shall we do a round of love facts today?

1. First things first. Stop searching, because the perfect partner does not exist. Some people jump from one relationship to another, looking for that one ‘perfect’ person. But at the end of the ride, they are left alone: their partners could not meet their lists of demands. According to psychologists, that person does not exist at all. You create them yourself when you are in love.

2. It takes less than four minutes to decide whether you like someone or not. Your body language and the tone and speed of your voice are more important than what you actually say.

3. Ah gus: the heartbeats of lovers sync with each other. According to research, your heart beats just as fast as your partner's when you are in a romantic relationship and looking at each other.

4. Most arguments at home are caused by the partner not listening well. No less than 47 percent of the Dutch find this blood-curdling annoying about their partner.

5. It’s a good sign if you like the smell of your lover's sweat. It means you are a good match based on your immune systems. As a woman, you get excited by the sweat of a man with a different immune system.

6. Men who kiss their wives in the morning live an average of five years longer. Oh, and speaking of that: the longest kiss ever according to the Guinness Book of Records lasted 417 hours. Say whut.

7. Do you have pain somewhere? Then it can help to look at a photo of your lovahlovah. The presence of your partner is of course better, but if this is not an option, then even a photo of your beloved can help. Still funny.

8. Wow. Research shows: one in fifty children in the world is raised by a man who, without knowing it, is not the biological father of the child. Women seem to have quite sneaky sexual strategies. According to the good genes theory, women have two evolutionary goals: to hook a man who can provide for her and her children AND to secretly get impregnated by a man who can give her strong and attractive children, something her own man does not have the right genes for.

9. There are about 1.23 million single men and 1.7 million single women in the Netherlands. And there are about 3 million first dates per day worldwide. Wow!

10. True luvvvv does not only exist among humans, but also among some animal species, such as wolves, swans, and penguins. Once they have found a partner, they stay together for the rest of their lives. Awh.