MSN has released the formula to a perfect relationship! So what does it take to make your coupling last?

Relationships on Female First

Relationships on Female First

A good sense of humour

Or GSOH for you online dating experts! If you can’t laugh you would cry- so this is essential in every relationship, or couples would never overcome any of their problems. This is the number one thing both men and women look for in a partner.

Great in laws

You date a guy, you date his family too- so you should do everything in your power to try with them and never drive a wedge between them.

Previous sexual partners-

Both men and women believe that their significant other should have had four previous sexual partners before them; however a minority of men think that the women should have held out for them!

MSN’s relationship expert and psychologist Corinne Sweet says:

“Most people enter a serious relationship, hoping it will last forever.  Few know that it’s only by the time they get to sexual partner number five that they really know what they want, and are confident to voice it.“

Looks-

Men are twice as likely to go for this over intelligence.

Connie said: “Good looks might help sexual attraction, but they don’t last forever, so it’s important to look at your partner’s personality, wants and desires as well.  The MSN Spring love formula can help determine the traits we should be looking for.  It can even indicate how long a relationship might last based on compatibility and mutual goals.  Forewarned is forearmed, even in love.”

Good Sex-

Men again- believe that this is the key to a happy ending relationship.

The formula is designed to be completed in a few short minutes as detailed below, determining just how a potential or current relationship can be expected to last. Will you take the test?

For heterosexual couples:

L = 8 + .5Y - .2P + .9Hm + .3Mf + J - .3G - .5(Sm - Sf)2  + I + 1.5C

L: The predicted length in years of the relationship

Y: The number of years the two people knew each other before the relationship became serious

P: The number of previous partners of both people added together

Hm: The importance the male partner attaches to honesty in the relationship

Mf: The importance the female attaches to money in the relationship

J: The importance both attach to humour (added together)

G: The importance both attach to good looks (added together)

Smand Sf = The importance male and female attach to sex

I = The importance attached to having good in-laws (added together)

C= The importance attached to children in the relationship (added together)