76 Interesting Facts About Dating and Relationships

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Check out this interesting facts sheet and feel free to leave your comments. Here are the top ten:

  1. Couples usually wait until six to eight dates before they are willing to enter into an exclusive relationship.
  2. Speed dating, invented by a rabbi from Los Angeles in 1999, is based on a Jewish tradition of chaperoned gatherings of young Jewish singles.
  3. The most common time for breakups is around three to five months.
  4. One in three teenagers have experienced violence in a dating relationship.
  5. In a survey conducted by MSNBC.com and Elle magazine, more than 31% of men said they dumped an overweight partner compared to 12% of women.
  6. On average, it takes between 12 to 14 dates before couples will trade house keys.
  7. Women who post a photo on Internet dating sites receive twice as many email messages as women who don’t. The same study found that men who reported incomes higher than $250,000 received 156% more email than those with $50,000.
  8. Match.com reports that 44% of its members in the United States have children.
  9. On free dating sites, at least 10% of new accounts are from scammers.
  10. If a man can’t decide what to wear on a date, he might want to wear blue. Studies show that women are attracted to men in blue.