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 ...
Besides, friends don't let friends marry badly...
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!
So, what’s their supposed compatibility?
They say opposites attract
Firefox vs IE 11?
iPhone vs Android?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Correlation != Causation
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.
Interesting post/thread/study. (who paid for this “study”? M$YOU?)
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.
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.
Met Mrs L online. 16 years married.
Bravo!! and congrats. Great story thanks for sharing.
My daughter has met a few real losers on line. I wish she would quit doing that.
Basement living ain’t for everybody I guess.
very witty post.
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