{"id":105,"date":"2011-07-21T06:17:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T11:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aguidetoselfsabotage.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2013-05-24T21:49:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T02:49:16","slug":"average-relationship-lengths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aguidetoselfsabotage.com\/2011\/07\/21\/average-relationship-lengths\/","title":{"rendered":"Average Relationship Lengths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number wizards and\u00a0statistician\u00a0ninjas along with a helpful dose of mind altering substances bring you the below charts.<\/p>\n<p>Many dating sites highlight the success rates of the couples that meet through their services. We believe &#8217;em. Really. Because why would they lie? But I just lied, because one of us doesn&#8217;t believe them and their ginned up numbers. So we&#8217;ve crunched our made up numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aguidetoselfsabotage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/fromonlinedate.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106\" title=\"fromonlinedate\" alt=\"Average relationship length originating from online date\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aguidetoselfsabotage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/fromonlinedate.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aguidetoselfsabotage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/fromonlinedate.png 600w, https:\/\/www.aguidetoselfsabotage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/fromonlinedate-300x268.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are skeptical about the respondents that indicating their dates only lasted the length of &#8220;one drink&#8221;. That drink better have been a\u00a0scorpion\u00a0bowl. Even if you know that it won&#8217;t work out only the very brave can bail at such an early point. After all there might be sex.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison we charted the average relationship length stemming from a random hookup in a bar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aguidetoselfsabotage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/frombar.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107\" title=\"frombar\" alt=\"Average relationship length originating from random hookup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aguidetoselfsabotage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/frombar.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aguidetoselfsabotage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/frombar.png 600w, https:\/\/www.aguidetoselfsabotage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/frombar-300x268.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Since these relationships started in a bar, and not a juice\/soy\/veggie\/let&#8217;s all hug-type bar, the &#8220;one drink&#8221; response was\u00a0negligible. There were two respondents in the affirmative in that category but scorpion bowl or not I think they&#8217;re lying.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong> If you want a lasting relationship, go get drunk and make out with some stranger at your nearest bar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>note: <\/strong>our researchers were too lazy to add any value to the y axis. Or is it the x axis? Does it matter? We&#8217;ll all going to die one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number wizards and\u00a0statistician\u00a0ninjas along with a helpful dose of mind altering substances bring you the below charts. Many dating sites highlight the success rates of the couples that meet through their services. We believe &#8217;em. Really. Because why would they lie? 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