Quote: (10-13-2017 11:56 PM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:
Can't recall whether the data was on here or Twitter.
Yet someone referred to a study that broke down how married couples met.
The vast majority of wedded folk met via social circle.
Small percentages were due to online dating or work placed matters.
With a very, very small percentage being people that met by chance or 'cold approaches'.
So, while the data in the graphs above indicate couples are meeting online more so than other ways.
Seems those that are willing or have enough commonality to actually get married still meet & get to know each other to a greater degree via social circle means.
Stands to reason that people would form deeper bonds when able to get to know each other over a longer period of time, as opposed to the lottery that is modern day dating.
We've been conditioned by decades of propaganda to believe in disney-like true-love marriages, but when you get right down to it marriage is still quite a pragmatic, mercenary institution. It's a way of bonding social circles and forging deals, even if the two individual people marrying don't like each other very much.