Random Stats

I was reading Women’s Health magazine (the June 2008 edition) and it had this page full of odd relationship stats. The thing that always gets me about these surveys, is that they exist in the first place. Who decided that knowing how many women have dumped a guy because he was a bad dancer (2%) was important to know?

Some of the stats in here include:

- Number of men the average woman has slept with (including husband): 6

- The average woman is most likely to dump a guy on a Monday in January than any other day (my last boyfriend dumped on a Sunday in January. Right after Desperate Housewives).

- 11% of Americans think it’s ok to dump someone via text message. Wow.

- 27% of single women are still pining over an ex; 50% of single men are still pining over an ex.

It’s that last stat that grabbed my attention. Twice as many men are still in love with their exes as women are. I’ve always had a theory that men fall way harder for women than women fall for men. We women fall way more often, and way sooner, but when men fall for women, they fall HARD. But we’re so used to the ups and down, so it never phases us long when we get dumped (and 73% of us keep gifts from our ex’s. Duh.).

As a single girl out there in the dating world, I find this stat rather discouraging. With everything else I have to fight against to get a date, I now have to deal with the fact that half of the dateable men are too emotionally unready to move on.

Pansies. Get over it.