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Originally Posted by Engine
I'm glad to hear that so many of you have families and parents that fell in love only once and lived happily ever after. May you first-time lovers all be so lucky.
I don't know all the stats of course, I only said approximately never. Also, I tend not to count the older generations b/c they got often got and stayed married due to tradition and taboo. And I've seen very few older married couples that I would consider happy (please don't inundate me with stories of how happy your parents and grandparents are - I believe you).
For the record, I do personally know one person (born after 1970) who stayed with their first love. One.
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I heard of a statistic - I forget where - that only 1/3 of people marry who they really want to marry and the other 2/3 marry when he or she are ready to settle down with another who is also ready to settle down. The stat might be less than 1/3 now of childhood sweethearts/first loves marrying compared to marriages that is a consequence of something like Matchdotcom.
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Originally Posted by mord
Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.
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