-US: Learn to fall in love with me, please, says leading psychologist

Robert Epstein, editor in chief of Psychology Today, has published a request for a woman who will learn to love him and will write a book with him about intentionally falling in love with a given partner, USA Today reported.

In the June issue of his magazine, Epstein ran an editorial seeking a woman who would date him exclusively, go to various types of couples’ counselling in order to get to know each other, then “fall deeply in love” by the end of a mutually negotiated time. Marriage would be a good outcome, he says.

“This isn’t a publicity stunt,” he said. “It’s a serious, albeit small-scale challenge to a vexing myth,” that there is but one person for each of us with whom we will live happily ever after. He seeks “an alternative to the silly myths that ruin so many lives.”

Epstein believes that people can learn to love – and that those who do, have a better chance at success than those who “start out with a burst of passion and end up with nothing”.

His dream is that many couples would sign an agreement pledging to a number of goals, such as “to know each other deeply; to be able to communicate with each other effectively; to be able to express our thoughts and feelings to each other; to be aware of each other’s needs and wants and to know how to satisfy them.”