how do you manipulate the values given in global variables to make romances occur faster? What do the variables mean?

Romance dialogues are either triggered by certain events or by the timer. In the last pane - Global Variables - you will find various counters. Advancing the one with your fling's name in it by 1000 or so should do the trick.
You can also skip a few dialogues. But I dont think you want to do that.

Assuming you are romancing Aerie,
AERIEROMANCE = 265435 (or some large number) advance this by whatever figure comes to mind.
AERIEROMANCEACTIVE = 1 (if its 3 the romance was busted, change back to 1)

As far as the trigger events are concerned, tell us who you are romancing and we shall spoil you.

I'm running the Concurrent Romances mod. For all three NPCs
(sweetie)romanceactive=2.
I'm trying to get Viconia to say something before seeing the destruction of Saradush, since I want to chang her her alignment. The only things she's said so far are when she reinitiates the romance, and when she gets perturbed at seeing her brother's shade at the Temple of Bhaal. Currently
Viconiaromance=1843161
I don't want to skip anything, but I think I need to do the next 2 dialogues before going back to Saradush. What do you think I should set the values to for the next 2 dialogues? I think one of them occurs when we rest. Isn't there also a "lovetalk" variable?
There's also a
Romanceconflict=1
Is this cause for alarm?