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Everybody has more than one soulmate. If you are with your 'soulmate' and find a better 'soulmate' then that first person is no longer your true soulmate.
The Model assumes people fall in love because the total benefit of being in love outweighs the total cost of being in love. So the probability of falling in love is related to your perception of the probability of net benefit resulting from being in love. Mathematically, the Model is written as:
Probability of Love = Probability of ( Net Benefit of Being in Love, Emotional Availability, Past Love Experiences )
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Net Benefit = Total Benefit - Total Cost
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Total Benefit = friendship + fulfillment of sexual needs
friendship = fulfillment of ( emotional needs + entertainment needs + materialistic needs - sexual needs)
Total Benefit = fulfillment of (emotional needs + entertainment needs + materialistic needs)
emotional needs = esteem needs + social needs + spiritual needs + safety needs
materialistic needs = primary needs + sexual needs + materialistic desires
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Total Cost = cost of (search + rejection + research + maintenance + opportunity) + breakup risk
search cost = your attractiveness + social networking skills + time cost + financial cost
rejection cost = -(your self-esteem + frequency of past rejections)
research cost = knowledge of self + diagnostic abilities + proximity
maintenance cost = emotional cost +
time cost to fulfill emotional, entertainment, materialistic needs +
financial cost to fulfill emotional, entertainment, materialistic needs
breakup risk = risk of being dumped + your breakup cost
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Commitment = future net benefit - future net benefit from another love + current breakup cost
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