Notice also the massive decline since 2000 of married couples who met as co-workers. May partly reflect unstable workplaces & telecommuting, but changing workplace sexual mores are also a likely culprit.
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That might just reflect that couples that met through family last longer. For all we know one-year-old relationships from bars outstripped the number of those from families twenty years ago also, but fewer of those have survived til now.
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True, the data is keyed to when they met.
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Introduced to my spouse in the 90’s via mutual friends. Worked for me. Humans are better than algorithms at this IMO
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Of course you have mixed cases: my dad met my mom because his cousin was one of her best friends.
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We should go back to arranged marriages.
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There's always an even older-school take than my take.
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I would have thought the met in bars would have declined in the 80s when police started to bring the hammer down on drunk drivers. Met my wife in a bar in 1979.
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It did, but only slightly, if you look at the chart.
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Hmm, I don't see "Met at law librarian conference" on here. Oh well. We're unique.
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