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Why he REALLY didn't call you back, the foot fetish and almost finding "the one."
It's Friday, the interwebs have been throwing strikes all week. Here's the best they had to offer on love and relationships:
Our buddies at The Frisky found a pair of New Yorkers living in a stressful position: 175 square feet. The married couple (and 2 cats) has my sympathy. Check out this vid from Geico and be glad if you don't have to live in NYC or a house built for Hobbits.
Lemondrop's Phil Williams talks about what makes him a bad boyfriend. I'm a bad boyfriend too, Phil, but it's mostly because I say, "bo-ring" during Read More
Are online daters really getting married in the mass numbers that dating sites say they are?
EHarmony claims in television and online ads that 2% of people who got married last year in the U.S. met through their site. Earlier this year, a Match.com media kit boasted that twelve marriages and engagements a day could be credited to their site. And Marcus Frind, chief executive and founder of Plenty of Fish says his dating site brings about 100,000 marriages a year.
For those of us who are proponents of online dating, these statistics — at first glance — seem promising. But are they really reliable, or are they — as Mark Twain once said of all statistics — just … Read More
Marriage age: most Americans married by 40, women marry younger than men.
Wondering if you'll ever get married? According to new federal data, you probably will. According to a study of almost 13,000 people, about 80 percent of Americans are married by age 40. A more general finding shows that 70 percent of people ages 25 – 44 have been married at least once.
Women tend to get married younger than men—ladies have a 50-50 chance of being married at 25 and almost three-quarters of us are likely to marry by the big three-oh. Only 61 percent of men will have done so by 30. By age 40, however, the … Read More
To marry or to wait: that is the question. Is there a "right" age to tie the knot?
The facts: According to USA Today, Americans are getting hitched later than ever—the 2007 census put the median marriage age at 25.6 for women and 27.5 for men. In 1890, when the census started tracking the stat, it was 26 for men and 22 for women. Marriage ages reached a low in the early 60s when the median was 22 for men and 20 for women. Since then we've been waiting longer and longer to say "I do."
To wed or to wait: that is the question. Not surprisingly, there are good arguments for both sides. If you … Read More
