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Half of Singles Don’t Want a Relationship or Even a Date
https://www.psychologytoday.com ^ | Aug 21, 2020 | Bella DePaulo Ph.D.

Posted on 08/27/2020 10:56:53 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19

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To: EEGator

I agree, and I don’t want a venereal disease. Never had one and I don’t plan to get started should my wife pass before me.


21 posted on 08/27/2020 11:17:25 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Feminists changed women and society for the worse. Men stayed the same.


22 posted on 08/27/2020 11:17:53 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: napscoordinator

Actually it was his wife who cheated on him


23 posted on 08/27/2020 11:18:17 AM PDT by RWGinger (Does anyone else really)
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To: RomanSoldier19

western women have become almost unbearable. The amount of attention seeking they require today is through the roof. Social media has destroyed them.

Ok men are not angels either but show me where men have changed as much as women have over the last 20 years. men are not having marches to free the twig and berries walking down a city street.

I feel sorry for the great young women out there. The other 75% have ruined or diminished their chances with good men.


24 posted on 08/27/2020 11:19:32 AM PDT by setter
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To: RomanSoldier19

If both hands are used is it a menage a trois?


25 posted on 08/27/2020 11:19:41 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: babble-on

Remember when a woman who was never married by her 30s was called a “Spinster”?


26 posted on 08/27/2020 11:20:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I've been saying for 12 years that even if we can keep the country away from the Demotrash, in the long run I think it's already over.

You can't have a functioning nation when the population just doesn't give a chit anymore.

27 posted on 08/27/2020 11:20:50 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: nickcarraway

“Currently,” according to the study, which is pretty weak sauce. It is an intentionally misleading headline to juice up a very unremarkable survey.

For example, the number of “uninterested” singles is actually lower than it was in the same survey 15 years ago, when it was 55 percent. Also, it becomes a lot more predictable when you realize this survey covers all ages and you see the breakdown:

37 percent — ages 18-29
39 percent — ages 30-49
50 percent — ages 50-64
75 percent — ages 65+

I wouldn’t think it’s that unnatural for someone who is single or divorced over the age of 50 to be uninterested in a relationship. So you would expect the number of “uninterested” singles to go up just based on the aging population. So you could say that this study shows a substantial INCREASE in interest in relationships compared to the previous generation.

I also don’t think it’s that strange for over a third of singles under 29 to say they are not interested in a relationship, either out of sour grapes or because they’re young and want their freedom.


28 posted on 08/27/2020 11:21:22 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: central_va

Bingo. Men are still expected to offer the same things as always, but what do women offer to men nowadays?

Don’t say sex, because anyone can get that without bothering with a relationship, so that’s not an asset you can chalk up in one column anymore.

Don’t say childbearing, since there’s a 50/50 chance they’ll just take your kids (and a lot of your stuff) and leave.

What exactly are modern women offering in a relationship to entice men?


29 posted on 08/27/2020 11:24:51 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: RWGinger

I’m still waiting for the final chapter. He said he watched the two screw. The wife says no he didn’t. Just too weird.


30 posted on 08/27/2020 11:27:52 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

31 posted on 08/27/2020 11:27:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

So, feminism was a success then!


32 posted on 08/27/2020 11:30:08 AM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

If this is so, we are done as a people. Can’t be bothered to be married, can’t be bothered to have children. Burke’s compact is broken, the purpose of the Constitution abandoned.

Maybe child-bearing Americans true to the Republic and true to their people will carve a smaller nation out of the wreckage.

People cast a vote for the future each time they bring a child into the world.


33 posted on 08/27/2020 11:32:21 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate other.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Feminism destroying women and weakening men is going as planned by the communists.


34 posted on 08/27/2020 11:32:22 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: central_va

Online porn isnt even the end of it. Kids can now go to snaprchat, instagram, Tokyo and see their friends in high school nude. Which is just terrible....unless you are a teenage boy, in which case it is the greatest thing ever....


35 posted on 08/27/2020 11:33:23 AM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: When do we get liberated?

Yeah, at least back in our day, we had to work at it.


36 posted on 08/27/2020 11:35:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Hate to be captain obvious but just another reason why western dating culture sucks.


37 posted on 08/27/2020 11:36:34 AM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: RomanSoldier19
This means nothing without photos of those who don’t want to date or have a relationship. I’m guessing they look like the screaming, crying Hillary voter after the election.
38 posted on 08/27/2020 11:38:40 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: RatRipper

A relationship means there is conversation.

Whether you want it or not.

My dog only talks back when I take him to the vet.


39 posted on 08/27/2020 11:38:44 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: skimbell

Now I know why some men are taking jobs to live in places like Japan, Korea, and Eastern Europe.


40 posted on 08/27/2020 11:40:28 AM PDT by the_individual2014
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