Love
How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You
Leil Lowndes
CONTEMPORARY BOOKS
A TRIBUNE COMPANY
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lowndes, Leil.
How to make anyone fall in love with you / Leil Lowndes.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8092-3211-1
1. Love. 2. Man-woman relationships. 3. Intimacy
(Psychology) 4. Sexual excitement. I. Title.
HQ801.L69 1996
306.7—dc20
96-14502
CIP
Jacket design by Scott Rattray
Interior design by Mary Lockwood
Excerpt from Obsession:
Copyright © 1995 by Debra McCarthy-Anderson and Carol Bruce-Thomas. All rights reserved.
Reproduced with the permission of the publisher, Harlequin Books S.A.
Copyright © 1996 by Leil Lowndes
All rights reserved
Published by Contemporary Books
An imprint of NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Two Prudential Plaza, Chicago, Illinois 60601-6790
Manufactured in the United States of America
International Standard Bo ok Number: 0-8092-3211-1
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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To fulfill the promise of the title, How to
Make Anyone Fall in Love with You offers
85 techniques based on scientific studies into the nature of romantic love.
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CONTENTS
1
Anyone? Yes, Practically Anyone
1
Science "Discovers" Sex
2
How More Research Was Compiled
4
How the Techniques Were Developed
5
How I Tested the Techniques
7
2
What Makes People Fall in Love? The Six Elements
9
What Makes People Fall in Love? The Six Elements
I. First Impressions
9
II. Similar Character, Complementary Needs
10
III. Equity
11
IV. Ego
12
V. Early-Date Gender-Menders
13
VI. Rx for Sex
14
3
The Physical Side of Falling in Love
17
"Why Do My Insides Go All Funny?"
17
"Does Somebody Have to Be Pea-Brained to Fall in Love with Me?"
17
"Why Do We Fall in Love with One Person and Not Another?"
18
"How Can These Little Things Start Love?"
19
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