10 Interesting facts about dating

Saturday, August 23, 2008

1. The divorce rate among couples where the woman makes more than the man is 50% higher than among couples in which the husband earns more.

2. There are 25,000 to 35,000 polygynous marriages in the U.S.,mostly in western states.

3. The #1 cause of divorce worldwide is infidelity.

4. The #2 cause of divorce worldwide is infertility.

5. The #3 cause of divorce worldwide is unkindness.

6. Worldwide, wives who are less than 20 years old are morethan twice as likely as women who are more than 20 to be killed by a husband in a jealous age, regardless of the age of the husband.

7. 33% of women who have extramarital affairs consider their marriages to be happy, while 56% of men do.

8. Worldwide, women prefer to marry men who are older than they are and vice versa.

In Finland, Sweden and Norway the man is 1-2 years older. In Nigeria, 6.5 years older. In Zambia, 7.5 years older. In the US, men in their 30s prefer a woman 5 years younger; in their 50s, a woman 10-20 years younger. In the US, on average in the first marriage, the man is 3 years older; in the second marriage 5 years older; in the third marriage, 8 years older.

9. For the lifetime, men on average would like to have 18 sex partners, and women, 4 or 5.

10. Remarriage after death or divorce? In the US, 76% of women aged 14-19 remarry; 56% of women aged 30-39; 32% of women aged 40-49; and 12% of women aged 50-75.

Reference - "The Top 10 Interesting Facts About Dating," by Susan Dunn, Coach and David M. Buss author of The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating . . .

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