Get together with your childhood sweetheart and stay true to yourself for a lifetime – nice idea, but also realistic? An ElitePartner survey has clarified it!
How many times have you tried it? How many people did you think they could really be the one who would stay by your side until the end of your life?
The theory of some couples therapists In any case, states that we have to fall in love at least twice before we are even able to love long-term and share our life with someone (although this theory does not necessarily exclude falling in love with the same person several times!).
But this theory also coincides with practice? Or does the romantic story of the sandpit love, which turns out to be the only true one and becomes a lifelong relationship, happen in reality more often than you think? Or do many even have far more partnerships than three, now that we are all living longer and personal freedom and individuality are becoming increasingly important? "ElitePartner" has gratefully taken on the clarification of these questions!
5,700 adults surveyed
In an online survey, the dating and partner search portal asked Internet users to indicate how many relationships you have already had in your previous one – including the current one. A total of 5,691 answered and lo and behold! The absolute majority confirmed the theory: 53 percent of those surveyed had between two and four relationships so far. The average number calculated by ElitePartner was 3.4 partnerships.
Most of those who deviated from the majority barely did so in this study: 16 percent had only had a relationship, 15 percent said they had already experienced five to six partnerships. Only two percent of the respondents reported extreme partner hopping, i.e. 15 relationships or more.
Is the lifelong partnership dying out?
What else the ElitePartner study revealed: The one, lifelong partnership seems to be becoming rarer. At least 22 percent of the 60 to 69-year-old age group stated that they only looked back on one relationship – a significantly higher value compared to the average (16 percent), which this group of respondents themselves is likely to have significantly increased.
But does that mean that two to four relationships is the golden path because most people go it? Or is it just the one, although not so many can do it today? Of course not! It doesn't matter whether we need one, two, three or 18 attempts to commit to someone – as long as we learn from our experiences and are happy with ourselves!
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