When Carrie Bradshaw wrote freelance at Vogue in an episode of Sex and the City she once proclaimed to her overly critical editor that she may not know men, but she certainly knows shoes.  All over the world, there are countless women who feel the exact same way.  For millions of years, humans have been trying to make sense of the complex world of love and we don’t seem to be any closer to understanding relationships.  For the third year in a row, Match.com surveyed thousands of men and women throughout the country and compiled a study on how Americans today really perceive dating, relationships, and of course the casual hook up.  The sample was chosen was based on the U.S. Census and included 5,000 single men and women as well as 1,000 married people.  They included people from every age, race, ethnic background, and area of the country.

Over the weekend, I attended a Match.com event on the Upper West Side where the online dating site’s very own cultural anthropologist,  Dr. Helen Fisher, who conducted the study presented her findings over cocktails. I must say that the findings were incredibly powerful and unexpected.  Though Americans seem to be experimenting more than ever, the overwhelming majority of both men and women ultimately still want a committed monogamous relationship.  The study even showed that men on average tend to be more romantic than women, fall in love faster, and want to move in together sooner.  However, what Dr. Fisher thought was the most interesting of her findings was that the modern-day “Friends with Benefits” phenomenon seems to have become a new and important part of the courtship process.  In fact, 50% of the singles surveyed who said they had been in a friends with benefits relationship, said that it resulted in a deeper relationship.  Click here to check out the rest of the study and have an amazing Valentine’s Day.

This is a sponsored post, but the opinions are all my own. 

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