Margot Hodges thought she was too busy for romance before she started meeting guys online.
A 30-something single mom and clinical social worker on Capitol Hill, she decided to try online dating in 2013 because she had no time to go out to meet people.
The number of newly married couples who report having met online has soared over the past five years, according to annual surveys by the wedding planning website The Knot. New spouses are now likelier to say they met online rather than through friends or in school, previously the most common ways to meet a long-term partner.
“The intent to meet someone is there on both sides with an app, unlike in a supermarket where you might throw out a line and find the other person isn’t interested in dating,” said Mr. Frix, who lives in Arlington, Virginia. “It’s not a cold call, but a quicker way to vulnerability and hitting the royal flush.”said they “matched” on Bumble in November 2019 and got engaged on Thanksgiving Day in 2021. They have scheduled an outdoor wedding on the coast of Maine in August 2024.
Building on that research, Stanford University sociologist Michael Rosenfeld found in a 2019 study that most straight couples had met online rather than through the methods of church, family and neighborhood connections. “The rising number of ethically non-monogamous and polyamorous relationships may contribute to the decline in weddings and how most people prefer to meet on dating apps rather than traditional means,” said relationship therapist Orit Krug, an expert on non-traditional couplings. “It is much easier to find like-minded people on apps like Feeld and OKCupid.
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