From the answers here I say most men have certain (sometimes bizarre!) fantasies, but actually have no idea - or are unwilling to tell - what actually makes them ‘fall in love’ with women.

My answer is not pretty. I am going, to tell the truth about men regards women they ‘fall in love’ with and marry.

Basically, a man falls in love with the woman who can best fulfill his EGO.

But every man has different ego needs. One man may prize women who are high maintenance, as this fulfills their ego need of being the partner of someone who is the high status (which can lend him the status which he lacks on his own). Such a man will easily ‘fall in love’ with a woman who fulfills that characteristic.

Another man’s ego need may be to be adored by his woman (because in real life he feels he has never received the due credit he feels he deserves), so he will choose a women who desperately need him and praises him to the skies and takes no credit for herself. He will ‘fall in love’ with such a woman, even if she is not very pretty - even in his eyes.

The real dirty SECRET: most men choose to commit to a woman who CONTROLS them - and whom they do not mind being controlled by and are not looking to escape from the control of. And yet they will NEVER ADMIT that they are happy to accept being controlled - basically, the control needs to be covert, subtle, undetectable, so that the man can feel like he is still ‘the man’.

This is where the ‘modern and independent’ women who give their man ‘freedom’ and ‘trust’ usually lose out. The mistake they make is that they think that if they give a man REAL freedom and trust, they are showing the man respect, which will make him respect her more - and based on that respect, he will ‘fall in love’ with her.

WRONG.

Instead, a woman who ‘acts’ a little bit insecure, who makes him aware that she notices that he notices other women, suggests to him that she is afraid he may leave her and so she overtly acts in certain ways to keep him close to her - makes the man feel that he is needed and he feels like he holds power. So the woman who acts a little possessive, weak, needy - and acts a BIT controlling due to that - usually fulfills his ego need - making him feel wanted and needed.

Also, most men will ‘fall in love’ with a woman they feel is very good - AS LONG AS she always remains a bit inferior’ to him - maybe the girl is insecure, maybe she is not too intelligent (ie. smart but not smarter than him), maybe she is a bit emotionally ‘weak’ and needy of him.

Men do not usually like to ‘look up to’ their woman - they like to be LOOKED UP TO. A woman who looks up to a man can more easily make him ‘fall in love’ with her. Conversely, if a man comes across a woman who is worthy of respect, who they can't help but look up to, they tend to feel not ‘in love’ but instead, intimidated, and uncomfortable of how to exactly act/respond. Men rarely know how to actually treat a woman who inspires true respect from him - rather he will shy away and avoid her - because his ego need is not to ‘look up to’ but to be ‘looked up to’.

Discrepancies lie in what women THINK will make a man all in love with her (mainly based on myths popularised by media), what men THINK to make them all in love with a woman, versus what men ACTUALLY need, want, and respond to.

In fact, most men who think they have ‘fallen in love’ are actually not really in love - they are INFATUATED. That is clear from the many answers here given by men as well. Their infatuation is NOT with the real woman, but an idea or fantasy they have of her. A man can read many things into a woman’s words, movements, characteristics, etc and give them (undeserved) meaning/significance - simply because they are ALREADY ‘in love’ with her. If he was not ‘in love’ with her, then those very exact same words, movements, characteristics - will be perceived as dumb/ psycho/ nymphomaniac/unappealing /crazy