Relationship Goals: What Women Really Want in Relationships

Relationship goals
Owning a home + children is a thing of the past: what women really want in relationships

Children, marriage, house – all of that means work. But also satisfaction and fulfillment. Are these still the most popular relationship goals for Germans? As a recent survey shows, more people are longing for different things these days and are setting their priorities differently than they might have been a few years ago.

Grow old together

In the new population representative Study conducted by ElitePartner asked 6,163 singles and couples what they wanted to achieve in their relationship. Eight out of ten people want to grow old together with their partner. For many people, the goal is to have a relationship that has future prospects. However, 73 percent of those surveyed want a lot of freedom and independence in their relationship. Among women, 66 percent said that living together in an apartment was important to them. For men it was 74 percent. However, it showed that only 44 percent of singles need to live together under one roof.

Is family planning still a relationship goal?

The overall results of the study show that previously typical wishes within a relationship – such as getting married and having children – have shifted. Seven out of ten participants (64 percent) would like to travel with their loved one and get to know distant countries and cultures. In comparison, only 46 percent dream of getting married and 48 percent dream of having children together.

59 percent of those who are in a relationship want children and 58 percent want to get married. Only 27 percent of singles see children in the future and 24 percent see marriage as a relationship goal.

What is particularly interesting is the evaluation of the older people who took part in the survey. Many people attach less importance to the typical milestones of a relationship – perhaps because they have already experienced them or because they evaluate them differently when they look back.

The big dream of ownership

Only 41 percent of Germans see purchasing a shared condominium or house as a couple as an important partnership goal. This desire seems to be greater among men in particular at 44 percent than among women at just 37 percent. Among those in a relationship, 51 percent would like to purchase a home with their partner. Among singles, only 22 percent see meaning in it.

The social environment and the idea of ​​emigrating

The result of 46 percent shows how important a common circle of friends and a stable environment are for many relationship goals. In return, 38 percent said that a large family with grandparents, aunts, uncles and siblings was desirable for them.

Quite astonishing is the fact that more than a quarter of men would like to live abroad temporarily or permanently during the course of a relationship. In contrast, just 18 percent of women want to leave their home country with their partner and live in another country. The question of starting a professional project together is similar. More men than women dream of this, the study shows.

Security thanks to classic relationship models is a thing of the past!

The qualified psychologist and ElitePartner expert Lisa Fischbach summarizes in the study report that for most people the desire for a long, stable relationship into old age is still the No. 1 romantic ideal, but it also shows that that people want more freedom in their relationships and rigid life plans are no longer so attractive.

“Love needs reliability and a secure framework. However, this is more often shaped by the quality of the relationship and shared experiences than by external constitutive factors such as owning a home, wedding rings or starting a family. With an increasing variety of equal relationship designs, couples can choose more freely what contributes to their shared happiness fits best,” explains the psychologist in conclusion.

These goals are important to women:

Source used: elitepartner.de

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