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Couples who met online three times more likely to divorce
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4:47PM BST 26 Sep 2014 | Sarah Knapton

Posted on 09/27/2014 11:08:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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1 posted on 09/27/2014 11:08:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
It's the e-mail order bride...

Besides, friends don't let friends marry badly...

2 posted on 09/27/2014 11:18:06 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Olog-hai

I just started dating a chick I haven’t seen since high school. We hooked-up via Facebook.

We joke that it’s good we never dated in school because if we did we may not be doing it now - LOL!


3 posted on 09/27/2014 11:23:31 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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So, what’s their supposed compatibility?


4 posted on 09/27/2014 11:43:40 PM PDT by wastedyears (Aldnoah.Zero - Best new anime of 2014.)
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To: wastedyears
So, what’s their supposed compatibility?

They say opposites attract

Firefox vs IE 11?

iPhone vs Android?

5 posted on 09/27/2014 11:55:35 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("Gang Green and the Government Staff Infection " - Glen Morgan, Freedom Foundation.)
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To: Olog-hai

This statistic is misleading I think. They should account for people that meet on via websites that put people together who have the same interests or faith. I met my wife 10 years ago (married for 8) on a Christian dating website. My brother met his wife 5 years ago on the same site. A dear friend of my wife met her husband 11 years ago on the same site as well. Anecdotal evidence suggests to me that if people share a common world view, it doesn’t matter where they meet. Did they check the divorce rates for people who meet in bars? I bet that would be even worse.


6 posted on 09/28/2014 12:05:51 AM PDT by The Unknown Republican
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I dunno about opposites. The opposite of me is extroverted, outgoing, and a little rude. I cringe at the thought of being the life of a party.


7 posted on 09/28/2014 12:16:56 AM PDT by wastedyears (Aldnoah.Zero - Best new anime of 2014.)
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To: Olog-hai

Makes you wonder who funded that study? Could this seemingly negative outcome be promoted by some industry that would benefit from face to face dating vs online? Could the restaurant industry or the live entertainment industry be complicit. I know it sounds overly suspicous, but I do wonder. Nowadays, with less single adults attending church on a regular basis, it’s not so easy meeting new people when you’re ‘on the market’. Bowling has about disappeared from most big cities. Not everyone wants to go to sporting events to see or be seen. Oh, but then there is always pistol range training, although that too tend to be a solitary sport.


8 posted on 09/28/2014 12:19:57 AM PDT by lee martell
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At least online dating sites let or require you to take detailed personality tests and then match based on compatibility. The obvious first is eHarmony. The second is True.com.

My wife and I met on True and we were the top ranked match across the country. I met the second highest lady, and she was a really nice lady, too. The third best I talked to multiple times, but never met.

All three women were intelligent (each had gone to school through full-ride scholarships), Christian, and conservative.

Meeting on “things in common” is, at best, only a quarter of “what matters.” So you both like U2, BBQ Ribs, and working out. What does any of that tell you about how you both will relate and work with each other in the ways that most matter? The answer is, “it doesn't.”

The personality-based matching is best. Combining it with the other provides icing on the cake.

9 posted on 09/28/2014 12:28:00 AM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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Correlation != Causation


10 posted on 09/28/2014 1:54:44 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Country Songs Don't Have Happy Endings" - http://youtu.be/W93nc95j1KY)
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No matter how you meet, the odds are stacked against you in the long run. People expect perfection in their partners today. Good luck with that.


11 posted on 09/28/2014 2:06:33 AM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededication to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution)
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Interesting post/thread/study. (who paid for this “study”? M$YOU?)


12 posted on 09/28/2014 3:53:14 AM PDT by PGalt
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I was married to my first wife for 35 years, about a year after the divorce my daughter came over and told me about Match.Com and helped me set up an account. I went on a couple of dates that were less than spectacular and then I met Mrs. B, a little red haired, redneck Texas girl that loves to hunt and fish, hell she even had her own 4x4 truck, a bass boat and a little red Trans-Am. On our fifth date she walked me out to the truck and turned a peck on the cheek into an absolute heart melting kiss. We’ve been married a little over 3 years now and are having a blast. She’s loving the ranch life and I’m loving her. I wish I’d met her 40 years ago.


13 posted on 09/28/2014 4:48:45 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: Olog-hai

More apt if they used time from first meeting until time of marriage as a calculation - many jump into the sack and hit the wedding hall in such short order they never really know each other but consider the orgasms as proof of their love and compatibility.


14 posted on 09/28/2014 5:09:30 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Olog-hai; GeronL; Slings and Arrows
How do you meet the same person 3 times online?


15 posted on 09/28/2014 6:08:43 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: Olog-hai

Met Mrs L online. 16 years married.


16 posted on 09/28/2014 6:11:59 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Dusty Road

Bravo!! and congrats. Great story thanks for sharing.


17 posted on 09/28/2014 6:12:35 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: Olog-hai

My daughter has met a few real losers on line. I wish she would quit doing that.


18 posted on 09/28/2014 6:13:16 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Olog-hai

Basement living ain’t for everybody I guess.


19 posted on 09/28/2014 6:48:57 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: trebb

very witty post.


20 posted on 09/28/2014 6:50:32 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Did you hear Slick Willie and Cankles have new rent a dogs?)
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