1212: Orion Taraban | Understanding Relationship Economics Part One

What It Covers

Psychologist Orion Taraban explains relationship economics, revealing how men and women pursue different mating strategies, why dating apps create marketplace distortions, and how understanding perceived value and attraction dynamics leads to better relationship outcomes.

Key Questions Answered

• •Attraction Prerequisites: Women want kindness and safety from men they're already attracted to, not as attraction-building tools. Men must first establish attraction through other variables before personality traits matter. Buying flowers for someone not attracted to you won't create attraction.
• •Dating Pathway Reality: In modern culture, every relationship starts as a one night stand without commitment guarantees. The pathway to long term relationships requires doing what works for short term attraction, then maintaining those behaviors over time. Leading with commitment intentions typically fails.
• •Cheating Pattern Differences: Men cheat with no significant relationship satisfaction difference between loyal and disloyal partners. Women who cheat show enormous dissatisfaction levels and typically use affairs to exit current relationships while securing the next one, a consecutive rather than simultaneous pattern.
• •Marketplace Value Timing: Women hold dating marketplace advantage in their twenties and early thirties, enabling defensive strategies. Men gain advantage later through accumulated success and resources. The party with more to lose runs defense, explaining different sexual selectivity patterns across age ranges.
• •Relationship Selection Reality: People date their perceived best available option, period. Understanding this requires combining psychological factors like confidence with economic factors like sexual marketplace value. Most dating advice fails by focusing exclusively on one dimension while ignoring the other.