A Question for you Humans

[Four-sided Triangles]

I have a question for you humans. What is the purpose of relationships? What end do they serve? What is the goal, the reason that you pursue them? I see only two.

1. The consolidation of material resources to better ensure the survival of your offspring and yourselves.

2. In the sexual economy, serial monogamy is a Nash equilibrium which minimizes sexual jealousy.

These seem to be the only purposes of a relationship. Am I wrong?

[Conserative Morality]

To find another person with whom you can share the beauty of life with.

[Pendragonia]

I have a question for you humans. What is the purpose of relationships? What end do they serve? What is the goal, the reason that you pursue them? I see only two.

1. The consolidation of material resources to better ensure the survival of your offspring and yourselves.

2. In the sexual economy, serial monogamy is a Nash equilibrium which minimizes sexual jealousy.

These seem to be the only purposes of a relationship. Am I wrong?

3. Mutual satisfaction of basic emotional well-being.

[Ifreann]

We're all doing it to piss you off.

[Four-sided Triangles]

To find another person with whom you can share the beauty of life with.

What does this even mean?

[Conserative Morality]

What does this even mean?

It means there's an emotional connection between two people in a romantic relationship that goes beyond 'sex'. Companionship beyond friends, if you want to simplify it into blander terms.

[Four-sided Triangles]

3. Mutual satisfaction of basic emotional well-being.

But the possibilities of abuse, rape (more likely to be raped by your SO than anyone else), fighting, violence, and emotionally damaging break-ups are all legitimate risks. This seems to skew the emotional aspect of the payoff matrix to a rather negative degree.

[Pendragonia]

What does this even mean?

It means there's an emotional connection between two people in a romantic relationship that goes beyond 'sex'. Companionship beyond friends, if you want to simplify it into blander terms.

I already said this, in the same bland format he had put his inquiry in.

[Four-sided Triangles]

It means there's an emotional connection between two people in a romantic relationship that goes beyond 'sex'. Companionship beyond friends, if you want to simplify it into blander terms.

What's the mechanism behind it?

[Lolzieristan]

It means there's an emotional connection between two people in a romantic relationship that goes beyond 'sex'. Companionship beyond friends, if you want to simplify it into blander terms.

What's the mechanism behind it?

Absolutely no idea, son. All I know is, I've felt it before. There are some things that I have absolutely no idea how to break down into social psychology terms, or -cringe- philosophical terms. I assure you, it wasn't sexual.

[Acsbaile]

Are you referring to a romantic relationship or matrimony?

[Astrolinium]

3. Mutual satisfaction of basic emotional well-being.

But the possibilities of abuse, rape (more likely to be raped by your SO than anyone else), fighting, violence, and emotionally damaging break-ups are all legitimate risks. This seems to skew the emotional aspect of the payoff matrix to a rather negative degree.

Clearly it doesn't, or people wouldn't be so attracted to the concept.

[Four-sided Triangles]

Are you referring to a romantic relationship or matrimony?

Any non-Platonic relationship.

[Four-sided Triangles]

Clearly it doesn't, or people wouldn't be so attracted to the concept.

No, the other two payoffs can make up for the emotional aspect.

[Hallistar]

To have sex and also go through a bunch of chemical induced neurological states of emotions that are basically floods of endorphins and hormones.

[The Murtunian Tribes]

I have a question for you humans. What is the purpose of relationships? What end do they serve? What is the goal, the reason that you pursue them? I see only two.

1. The consolidation of material resources to better ensure the survival of your offspring and yourselves.

2. In the sexual economy, serial monogamy is a Nash equilibrium which minimizes sexual jealousy.

These seem to be the only purposes of a relationship. Am I wrong?

It depends. People pursue relationships for a myriad of reasons, although I doubt establishing a Nash equilibrium is one of them.

[Conserative Morality]

What's the mechanism behind it?

Who cares?

Well, you care, obviously. But I'm willing to enjoy life without breaking it down into the most base components for funsies (Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that, it's just really not my thing). I prefer to build upon it.

[Lolzieristan]

I have a question for you humans. What is the purpose of relationships? What end do they serve? What is the goal, the reason that you pursue them? I see only two.

1. The consolidation of material resources to better ensure the survival of your offspring and yourselves.

2. In the sexual economy, serial monogamy is a Nash equilibrium which minimizes sexual jealousy.

These seem to be the only purposes of a relationship. Am I wrong?

It depends. People pursue relationships for a myriad of reasons, although I doubt establishing a Nash equilibrium is one of them.

He means the purpose; it seems biological as hell as to why we do this. He also assumes there's a reason for it, which I have stopped doing.

[Four-sided Triangles]

It depends. People pursue relationships for a myriad of reasons, although I doubt establishing a Nash equilibrium is one of them.

All those reasons are conscious manifestations of the real evolutionary reasons.

[Pendragonia]

Clearly it doesn't, or people wouldn't be so attracted to the concept.

No, the other two payoffs can make up for the emotional aspect.

They do not. Humans are often guided solely by their emotional state.

[Kurska]

Relationships are so women don't grow bored of existence. Take monkeys for example. They just fuck and move on to the next mate. But female humans, that's not enough. They need money. And something to brag about

[The Nuclear Fist]

Eh, I think prehistoric man formed relationships as a way of uniting in the name of survival. In modern times, it's a matter of being with someone you care for. Companionship beyond what is otherwise normally able. I've been married three times, and have been in many dozens of relationships. It's a path of emotional gratification. Although there are risks, these are overshadowed by the near-constant positive feelings one experiences in a relationships. Personally, I'm at my emotional best when I'm in a relationship.

[The Murtunian Tribes]

It depends. People pursue relationships for a myriad of reasons, although I doubt establishing a Nash equilibrium is one of them.

He means the purpose; it seems biological as hell as to why we do this. He also assumes there's a reason for it, which I have stopped doing.

Of course there's a reason. There's hundreds of reasons. Reason=purpose.

[Four-sided Triangles]

They do not. Humans are often guided solely by their emotional state.

Emotions are simply semi-conscious motivations often based on highly rational split-second decisions in the genetic economy.

[The Murtunian Tribes]

It depends. People pursue relationships for a myriad of reasons, although I doubt establishing a Nash equilibrium is one of them.

All those reasons are conscious manifestations of the real evolutionary reasons.

So?