Analyzed by economic theory, everything we do has a cost, even when we are in a relationship. It is said that talking about relationships mentions money hurts feelings, so let’s talk today about how much an affair costs specifically, so that those who want to develop an affair look at what he really has to pay for such behavior.
Opportunity cost.
Choosing one opportunity means giving up another, so the choice comes at a cost, and that cost is the cost. For example, if you starve yourself to lose weight, then the desire to lose fat to achieve a leaner body is the gain, and the meals you starve and the resulting hunger and damage to your organs is the cost of the input.
Because of the exclusivity of human love, choosing an extramarital affair will come at the expense of a once beautiful and happy family and the resulting negative impact on one’s reputation. One can choose to be determined when faced with the temptation of love after marriage, or one can choose an extramarital affair. Then, when choosing an extramarital affair, one pays the opportunity cost of sacrificing one’s family and personal reputation.
The cost of meals and entertainment.
Anyone has to eat and entertain, and the parties to an extramarital affair further increase the consumption of meal and entertainment costs due to their unique circumstances. Since the two do not live for the purpose of life, but for pleasure, the cost of meals and entertainment is higher than normal people. One of the parties to an extramarital affair in order to please the other party will often carry out a higher level of consumption, few novels depict extramarital affairs two people together to drink porridge and eat pickles. In the case of the novel, the two sides of the affair often engage in entertainment in the form of singing and dancing in cabarets, or going to cafes and teahouses for tea and gossip, which costs more.
The cost of information.
Costs paid for access to information or losses due to poor information (or asymmetry) can be considered information costs. This is the information age, and the cost people pay for information is high for society as a whole, and it is no exception for extramarital affairs. The two parties to an extramarital affair, whether out of concern or with reconnaissance, have to achieve this through phone calls, internet, letters, interpersonal contacts, etc., and therefore pay for phone calls, internet usage, communications, interpersonal social costs, etc.
In addition, one or both parties to the affair do not get the correct information about the outcome of their relationship to the extent that they become addicted to it, and eventually the lack of information or asymmetry leads to the failure of their emotional activities, bringing pain, regret, or feelings of helplessness, which affects their personal This is also the cost of information.
The cost of sex.
Some people deny that there is a cost to sex, which is not true. The normal sex between a man and a woman (or same sex) has to pay costs such as emotional, energy and physical strength. The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you are getting into.
Psychological costs.
Psychological cost is the cost to meet the psychological needs of the other person or both parties. For example, buying expensive jewelry or even buying a car or house. Since the parties do not aim at the final life, one party asks for gold or silver jewelry, a car or a house mainly for personal self-interest to satisfy psychological needs.
The cost of risk.
There are risks in everything you do, and there are costs to protect against those risks. For example, if you can get poisoned from eating, you have to spend more money on food from regular producers and sellers to prevent poisoning, rather than buying potentially contaminated or poor quality food from the ground for the sake of cheapness.
Extra-marital affairs are more of a high-risk activity because they are not regular relationships. In order to prevent the risk, it is a risky cost to engage cautiously and consequently pay more energy, material and financial resources. The other is that because extramarital affairs are not protected by law, they are always in danger of disintegration. In order to stabilize the relationship, both men and women or one party will take the risk of spiritual cage and material temptation, and these inputs are also risk costs.
The cost of etiquette.
In order to build a good image, an individual or business enterprise needs to invest costs in PR etiquette. Extra-marital affairs in the etiquette to pay, one is the cost of buying flowers, Valentine’s Day, each other’s birthday, Christmas and so on, need to send flowers to wrestle with each other’s good feelings. The second is the cake and small food, each other’s birthday or holiday, to buy cake or melon, peanuts, sour plums and other small food to regulate the atmosphere. In addition to children, everyone eats cake and small food only to eat its symbolic meaning, so the cost in this regard belongs to the cost of etiquette. Third is cosmetics, mostly for the cost of the woman consumed. Fourth is clothing, to buy clothes for each other to maintain a good image and consolidate the relationship.