One-night stands and friends with benefits are just what your brain ordered. A n American man and a French woman meet on a train in Eastern Europe. They live on different continents. But before the sun comes up, they have spent the night together. What happens next?
While some might dismiss this as Hollywood romanticism, it is actually a common experience. For the past five years, my colleagues at Match. And 27 percent of our respondents reported having had a one-night stand turn into a long-term, committed partnership.
We humans are a romantic tribe. Over 54 percent of American singles which make up over half of the adult population believe in love at first sight; 56 percent believe laws should make it easier to wed; 89 percent believe you can stay married to the same person forever.
In America, as in much of the post-industrial world, romantic love is in full bloom. Yet between 43 and 50 percent of American marriages will fail, and some 67 percent of American cohabiting couples report that they are terrified of the social, legal, emotional, and economic consequences of divorce. Fast sex is part of the package. Couples want to get to know everything about a potential life partner before they tie the knot.
Welcome to the age of slow love. S ingles in America is not a poll of the Match. Instead, it probes an annual representative sample of over 5, Americans, based on the U. To date we have queried over 25, men and womenโto my knowledge, the largest national representative study of singles.
