Women on EH with the goal of getting married


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szgorzelski is offline szgorzelski Post #1  April 24,2010, 5:44am
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What percentage of women on EHarmony do you think want to meet someone in the hopes that it might someday lead to marriage?
 
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With its marketing emphasis on "success stories" that crow about how many daily marriages had by its members that met each other, on that site, I would say, a lot more than you would think.

They should have a disclaimer, though: "But if you want a guarantee, buy a toaster".
 
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In hopes it would lead to marriage? I would guess pretty high, though I don't know what to guess - 90%?

I say that because there are plenty of sites available to find people for hookups and casual dating, so wouldn't think women would make the investment of time and money in eH for same reasons.

And of course the site is marketed to women as a place to meet men who are ready for that type of commitment, with the implication that they weed out those that don't. Of course, not sure how there is any solid way of doing that....
 
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eH is largely geared toward marriage, so I agree that the percentage is very high. I would think other sites might be more mixed in terms of expectations.

I know I would like to be married again...someday....maybe.
 
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What percentage of women on EHarmony do you think want to meet someone in the hopes that it might someday lead to marriage?

Few.

I think most of them explicitly want marriage. Relatively few are looking for "might."

Even at my mid 20's experience, I'd say appreciably over half were seeking a marriage partner. (And this is from a liberal, educated, northeast US dataset.)
 
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I also suspect that the number is really high, and Froggy's nuanced observation seems right to me, who has spent a good chunk of my 45 years in one place or another of the northeastern US.

Thanks to eH's marketing, I used to assume the same marriage-mindedness of men on the site, but my guy (an eH match) has never wanted to get married because of having seen too many nasty divorces in his social circle and family. He joined (as a non-paying member) just to see what the system would match him with. Whether he'll change his mind for me, or, indeed, whether I'd even say "yes" if he did, remains an open question. Life-partnership could be enough for me.

Marriage is still a preference, if not an actual goal.
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I am hoping to meet a guy that I would marry one day. I was disscussing this with a friend offline and she said “If you are looking for a long term relationship using eh your setting your self up for disapointment. Have fun and relax it is just meeting some else who happens to be a guy. Start off thinking you are meeting a friend and see what happens from there.” Great advice. Now all I need is a guy to respond to me on eh.
 
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D_Lion wrote :
Few.

I think most of them explicitly want marriage. Relatively few are looking for "might."

Even at my mid 20's experience, I'd say appreciably over half were seeking a marriage partner. (And this is from a liberal, educated, northeast US dataset.)
Why the clarification of liberal, educated, and northeastern US mindset? Should marriage be less common among that group for some reason? Is the desire for marriage more common, or "expected," among the conservative, uneducated people that live elsewhere?

Are liberal, educated people not supposed to want to get married? Or is it because they live in the northeastern United States?
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There is in fact a correlation amoung percentage of married population, age of first marriage, level of education, number of childen, theological belief, and political persuasion, in different regions of the US.
 
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