- having fun,
- needs,
- desire to gratify received interest,
- desire to return the favor of raising ones attractiveness,
- desire to reward a diverse range of behaviors (some hard-coded into genes as well!)
CAN & often will override anything "fitness", and much more often than not, not only temporary!
I didn't mean literally pay to marry. Let's just say your kids and associated expenses is included in what I meant. Do the math:)
Go read the site and tell me again you still believe they have the “serious goal” of finding you a partner. The first thing I saw on the homepage was “experience hypergamy”. Then a bunch of entries on luxury, spending money, and how everyone on their website is somehow beautiful, successful, and intelligent. All the while using the same two actors for everything. In one of the fake exchanges, one of them (presumably the man, judging from the rest of the copy) invites the other to the Maldives, who immediately agrees.
They’re selling bargain bin fantasies. It’s drivel for men and women who think of themselves as the protagonists of 50 Shades type books.
Suppose you wouldn't need to pay more than $100 if you'd find your match and leave platform. Serious goal = serious price. Marriage will cost much more anyway. Marriage with a wrong person will cost 10x again.