Twenty-Nine Percent of Women Spend More Time Looking for Shoes Than a Life-Long Partner?

The Love Engineer blog recently published some interesting facts about men, women and relationships. One long list of stats, this post includes some real surprises (see the reference to shoes below). A few highlights:

• 44% of all American adults are single. I would have thought that number would be much, much lower. But, this means all you singles out there looking for love, well, the playing field is wider than you thought. But, know that, according to this list that, for every 100 single women in the U.S. there are also “just” 86 single men.
• 8 out of 10 single people think the first kiss is a good indication of how the rest of the relationship will be. I happen to believe this one. So, get out those breath mints.
• 29% of women spend more time looking for shoes than a life long partner. Really? I mean, I like shoes and all…
• 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. (Another reason to love Scandinavia.) 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. Surprise, surprise.
• Also, the #1 cause of divorce worldwide is infidelity. But, the #2 cause of divorce worldwide is infertility. (I suspect certain countries that-shall-remain-nameless are responsible for this one). The  #3 cause of divorce worldwide is unkindness. So, play nice.

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