anyway, a friend of mine sent me this article that says the average woman dates 24 men before she finds the right one...and also spends around $3000!! this article stresses me out because i am pretty sure i am on number 3 or something so i have forever to go....
check out the full article HERE.
In the study, 7 percent of women surveyed went on 41 to 60 dates before finding someone to share their life with.
And 1 percent of women said they had been on 61 to 80 dates before finding someone suitable.
The research also revealed that despite the amount spent on each date, a third of women have left halfway through after realizing they had met "Mr. Wrong."
One in four women will meet a man just once before deciding whether or not he is "the one," according to the research.
Thirty-five percent will give a man two dates, and 16 percent make their decision after three dates.
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but don't u also get a lot of free dinners dating, too.. i mean, you'd probably spend the same amount of money on entertainment anyway... :)
okay and apparently this was a big study bc the Times of India did a "bollywood/masala version" of this british study. it's in today's paper....
anyway, a friend of mine sent me this article that says the average woman dates 24 men before she finds the right one...and also spends around $3000!! this article stresses me out because i am pretty sure i am on number 3 or something so i have forever to go....
I don't know, of course, but I'm suspicious that you and she (or the study) aren't using the same definition of "date." I mean, on one extreme (that I never adopted when I was single), any time you are with a member of the opposite sex, it's a "date." Another standard is similar (in that it doesn't require intentionality), but at least is only even you're with only one member of the opposite sex at the time....
NicodemusLegend, I agree with you completely! I think that is why I found the study so shocking. There does need to be some definition they provide us.
my issue is with the notion of "finding mr. right." i hate to sound crass but it would be more right to say "finds the one she can live with" or, for a better spin, "finds the one she can vows to live with."
not to make it totally individualistic, but i'm very skeptical of the notion of "mr/mrs right." once you think you found 'em, you marry them, and then you think one bad day "holy crap! did i screw this one up."
every married person every morning (whether consciously or not) reaffirms their vow to "wake up married."though i don't want to go back to arranged marriages - i think the notion of love as attraction only is screwed up. love is different ("Golda? Do you love me..." - love that song from Fiddler)
I agree, dating is a pain and down right sucks most of the time. I think, though, the better way is not to think of it as a quest for mr right but part of the creative process of imagining life with someone. if you can't imagine it, drop 'em. if you can - and its better then the way life is now - keep at it. ;-)
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