Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Why you are still single...
I have been thinking about this for a while now. Being in san diego, most of my friends are single like me, and I know plenty of people. And the only engaged couple i knew have just broke up after being together for 6 years! its crazy how many single people there are these days - and more and more people are getting married later, or sometimes not at all. compare this with the last generation, when it was weird if you weren't married by your mid twenties. by the time my dad was my age, he had been married for 7 years and had me and my brother!
heres my reasoning on why people are staying single more than ever.
1: the rise of TV - more people see good looking 'cool' people than ever before. makes you often doubt your current partner and make you always wonder if you are missing out.
2: the rise of internet dating - its way to easy to find other potential dates, even if you are in a relationship. so rather than just staying together because its the easy thing, its now easier than ever to find someone else instead, thus bouncing from relationship to relationship.
3: the rise in people eating out and being more socialable. this puts people in more situations than before where they are possibly going to meet someone else better to date.
4: the more people stay single, the more everyone else will stay single. its a theory from tipping point
, a great book by malcolm gladwell, which makes me think we are starting to see a tipping point regarding people staying single rather than getting married.
I just read about a great book about this stuff too, which also talks about some of my 'single' theories. check it out, its called unhooked generation by Jillian Straus.
heres my reasoning on why people are staying single more than ever.
1: the rise of TV - more people see good looking 'cool' people than ever before. makes you often doubt your current partner and make you always wonder if you are missing out.
2: the rise of internet dating - its way to easy to find other potential dates, even if you are in a relationship. so rather than just staying together because its the easy thing, its now easier than ever to find someone else instead, thus bouncing from relationship to relationship.
3: the rise in people eating out and being more socialable. this puts people in more situations than before where they are possibly going to meet someone else better to date.
4: the more people stay single, the more everyone else will stay single. its a theory from tipping point
, a great book by malcolm gladwell, which makes me think we are starting to see a tipping point regarding people staying single rather than getting married. I just read about a great book about this stuff too, which also talks about some of my 'single' theories. check it out, its called unhooked generation
by Jillian Straus.
