Study shows that people that meet online are less likely to get divorced
A recent study came out that showed that:
- more than a third of people that marry met online, and
- are less likely to divorce.
This makes sense to me. As I said before, online dating is like having an aunt named Aunt eMatch saying, “I’ve got a girl I think you might like – and here’s her resume, a buncha pics, and a writing sample.”
While I didn’t meet my wife online, she represents exactly what I was looking for. And I’d been looking for her for a while. After all, we’re always looking for our people.
On a related point, because of a number of reasons, I have a good deal of twenty-something friends on FB. I’m always slightly amused and nauseated at how much the profess their undying love to each other, then have an online spat, and then sign on again to write egregiously bad poetry about soulmates.
Heard a joke once where someone said something like, Your soulmate is the guy that had the locker next to you in high school? What are the chances?!
Dating is tiring and depressing with occasionally bright spots of hope – mainly because it’s a constant stream of being disappointed and disappointing others. But just like anything of value, if it were easy, it wouldn’t be valuable.
The difficult and rare things are valuable.
I think a large part of divorces happen because either (a) someone wanted it easy, and/or (b) there wasn’t enough connection to begin with.
There’s no such thing as a soulmate. There is such thing as a lotta hard work and having enough in common to begin with.
Inadvertent comedy doesn’t hurt either.
Me: (entering room) Are you ok?
Her: I just accidentally typed in Wetflix instead of Netflix. (pause) I don’t think I’ll ever get over it.
Location: about to run to an office in shorts and a tee-shirt
Mood: contented
Music: It’s still hard to wait around. The problem is this seems so easy to miss
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6 replies on “And in the “I knew it!” file…”
I always thought that there wasn’t just one person for you. I think you can find common traits and with some effort, make things work.
That said, marriage can sometimes feel just as depressing and exhausting as dating. But humans like bonding! We just keep at it.
I agree with that; it’s sort of a time/place graph where if you meet the right person, at the right time, in the right place, it can work out. I do think that there are levels of compatibility and effort, though, and some are more “right” for you than others.
Yes, humans like bonding – it why we’ve made it so far!
Haha, I read this comic and thought it was like relationships!!
http://thedoghousediaries.com/comics/uncategorized/2013-05-24-cb4afa1.png
Ha – that’s awesome!
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