A stable and rewarding love relationship is considered a key ingredient for happiness in
Western culture. Building a successful long-term relationship can be viewed as a control …

A stable and rewarding love relationship is considered a key ingredient for happiness in
Western culture. Building a successful long-term relationship can be viewed as a control …

Background Marital dissolution is ubiquitous in western societies. It poses major scientific
and sociological problems both in theoretical and therapeutic terms. Scholars and therapists …

The ubiquitous phenomenon of marital dissolution in the West poses a major theoretical
problem that is not well understood. The fact that most couples declare that they are …

People benefit from good marriages. Thus, everyone is willing to put effort into marriage to
improve the quality of marriage. However, effort is costly. Then everyone faces the same …

The study of marriage dynamics and of strategies to reduce the likelihood of divorce has
been an important research area for many years. Gottman's research on successful …

This article examines mean-field games for marriage. The results support the argument that
optimizing the long-term well-being through effort and social feeling state distribution (mean …

We propose a minimal yet intriguing model for a relationship between two individuals. The
feeling of an individual is modeled by a complex variable and, hence, has two degrees of …

Using accepted evidence from the psychology of marriage, a simple theory of longterm
sentimental dynamics based on optimal control theory is proposed. It is shown that there is a …

This paper proposes a minimal model composed of two ordinary differential equations to
describe the dynamics of love between two individuals. The equations take into account …