Posted on 09/27/2014 11:08:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Married couples who met online are three times more likely to divorce than those who met face-to-face, a study has found.
Online daters are also 28 percent more likely to split from their partners within the first year, new figures from Michigan State University in the US suggest.
A study of more than 4,000 couples found that relationships were far more stable if couples met in traditional ways such as introductions by friends or through work, hobbies or socializing.
Couples who meet online are also less likely to get married and generally have a poorer relationship quality that those who met offline. …
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I guess they just use a new handle and keep choosing the same person
Maybe people who “met” online were desperate losers.
Dang - well there goes that ....
Hmmm. Wife # 1; met in a bar......divorce after 11 years of marriage
Wife # 2; met in bar.....divorce after 3 years marriage
Based on my experience, INTELLECT DEFICIENCY is the culprit! Do not marry REALLY beautiful women! They truly are, statistically, not very smart. Plus, their mommas taught them to only marry a man with money!
On a bumper sticker, and now as an old guy being fair, they married me for money, I married them for looks.
Both reasons pretty dumb!
My first two, started the “old-fashioned way” were disasters.
Met the Mrs on match.com. Been married 11+ years and going strong.
Her Free Ad...Yahoo...16 years married. It’s your Faith stupid! It always is. For the Greater Glory of God.
Wonderful story, thanks for sharing. It gives hope to those of us who are on a path similar to where you were.
Mr. GG2 and I met online 8 glorious years ago. We are as happy as clams. You could not pry us apart with the jaws of life. We are the classic example of “til do us part”. :-)
“Thumbs up” for seeing the reality on both sides.
I’ve seen that way too many times—fortunately not with my own or my wife’s prior dating experience.
A diet of candy rots your teeth and leaves you malnourished.
The problem with these stats is they’re blaming the medium when the problem is who comes to it. Folks who resort to online dating tend to have issues building relationships, it’s a desperation move. And whatever baggage they had in relationships that started in meat space doesn’t magically go away if they meet online. That being said I know 3 married couples that met online, no divorces yet, we’ll see how it plays.
They must not be using e-Harmony.com...
The fact that you refer to her as a "chick" does not bode well for the relationship...
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