Posted by: iLED009 October 14, 2015
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Great attempt in trying to correlate human relationship, precisely romantic relation between male and female, with the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility!
While the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility explicitly states that, with every increment in relative consumption of product A over product B, there is some delta decrement in the marginal utility of product A. Further, this decrement in marginal utility continues with additional consumption of product A. Clearly, neither human (male/female) nor the associated behaviors (of/in relationship) can be treated as products/utilities/consumables. Hence, loss of interest, change in behaviors, and fading emotions towards a partner with time cannot be remotely explained by the above law!
Perhaps, invoking social psychology and behavioral science will give us some insights here. So far, there has been serious study and attempts in understanding this ever evolving and complex human romantic relationship. It has been found that, there is substantial increase in release of certain chemicals such as oxytocin, dopamine etc., in our body under some circumstances. These hormones control most of our response related to intimacy, social bonding etc. During the early phase in a romantic relationship, our body frequently produces increased level of these hormones. As a consequence we now have - an extra energy that puts us on cloud nine – and give us ultra mental focus. Sadly, glands fail to produce these hormones at increased rate for indefinitely; hence the state of euphoria or whatever it is lasts only for a while! The body goes back to normal mode, and when it does there is obvious decrease in the amount of romantic indulgence. But, this is normal and at least I think it as a normal human response! So, all the blames on hormones!
There’s an evolutionary implication to this as well – increased level of these hormones even for a certain duration of time allowed early humans to have that special feeling and attachment towards their partners. Intimacy, social bonding and monogamy which are very specific human traits, compared to other mammals; are direct consequences of these hormones. It helped shape the human evolution, our evolution. So, after all it’s not the hormones to blame!
While the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility explicitly states that, with every increment in relative consumption of product A over product B, there is some delta decrement in the marginal utility of product A. Further, this decrement in marginal utility continues with additional consumption of product A. Clearly, neither human (male/female) nor the associated behaviors (of/in relationship) can be treated as products/utilities/consumables. Hence, loss of interest, change in behaviors, and fading emotions towards a partner with time cannot be remotely explained by the above law!
Perhaps, invoking social psychology and behavioral science will give us some insights here. So far, there has been serious study and attempts in understanding this ever evolving and complex human romantic relationship. It has been found that, there is substantial increase in release of certain chemicals such as oxytocin, dopamine etc., in our body under some circumstances. These hormones control most of our response related to intimacy, social bonding etc. During the early phase in a romantic relationship, our body frequently produces increased level of these hormones. As a consequence we now have - an extra energy that puts us on cloud nine – and give us ultra mental focus. Sadly, glands fail to produce these hormones at increased rate for indefinitely; hence the state of euphoria or whatever it is lasts only for a while! The body goes back to normal mode, and when it does there is obvious decrease in the amount of romantic indulgence. But, this is normal and at least I think it as a normal human response! So, all the blames on hormones!
There’s an evolutionary implication to this as well – increased level of these hormones even for a certain duration of time allowed early humans to have that special feeling and attachment towards their partners. Intimacy, social bonding and monogamy which are very specific human traits, compared to other mammals; are direct consequences of these hormones. It helped shape the human evolution, our evolution. So, after all it’s not the hormones to blame!