What if the way you met your significant other predicted the future of your relationship? An expert in human relations is convinced by this idea.
“Tell me how you met him, I’ll tell you how your relationship will evolve”this saying is a bit like that of Wendy Patrick, specialist in social networks and human relations for Psychology Today. After bringing together the information obtained from two studies on the subject, she is now convinced that how you meet your partner influences “relational stability, quality and success” of the couple in question. The most recent study, carried out in 2016 among adolescents and published in The Journal of Adolescent Health reveals that “young people feel they have more satisfying relationships with partners they meet offline compared to those they meet online”. And for good reason, they consider it to be possible to lie and embellish reality on social networkswhich can be avoided “in real life”. It is mainly the fact of knowing little online about one’s partner that will weaken couples in the future. That’s not all, experts have also noticed that the relationships started on the Web among teenagers were not very solid becausethey were ashamed to have met in this way.
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Why are these relationships born on the networks less likely to last among adolescents?
This is notably the result of a study published in 2014 in the Journal of Social and Personal RelationShips : “Couples who met online or in a bar were less likely to consider their method of initiating a relationship as socially acceptable.” Conclusion, they lie, invent themselves “a cover story” to sell a better account of their encounter to their social circle. Beginning on a lie, their relationship has thus less likely to last. If these two studies highlight the fragility of relationships started on the Internet among adolescents, it is different among adults. Many stories are born this way and last, since both partners really want it. It doesn’t matter how you meet your significant otheras long as you feel good and in tune with this person!