Women cry for romance and many believe they are more romantic than their partners. However, a new research has shown that Men ARE more romantic as 48% fall in love at first sight compared with 28% of women….
I hope you know what I am thinking at this stage…Unless we get a machine to really test TRUE LOVE, I am sure most of the men falling in love at first sight are just quickly looking for what women try to hide from me…
I beg to differ; falling in love with someone at first sight is mostly based on the person’s appearance and that is very shallow to me. Nothing romantic about that…They may forget anniversaries and buy last minute Valentine’s gifts from petrol stations, but men are, apparently, more romantic than women.
A survey found that while 48 per cent cent have fallen in love at first sight, a mere 28 per cent of women could claim the same.
The research, published in new book The Normal Bar, questioned 10,000 people worldwide about their attitude towards love and relationships.
The Normal Bar is the brainchild of entrepreneur Chrisanna Northrupp and is co-authored by academics Professor Pepper Schwartz, sociologist at the University of Washington, and Professor James Schwartz, Director of the Centre for Social Science Research at George Mason University in Virginia.
Using data collected from their online survey, the book aims to dispel the myths surrounding sexuality and relationships, shed light on what a real 21st century relationship entails and help make your own relationship more satisfying.
The survey, which is ongoing, contains 1,300 questions and touches on everything from sex to the most attractive physical features to personality traits a prospective partner looks for, the Washington Post reported.
Other interesting figures from the survey included the finding that only 74 per cent of people are happy in their relationship and 66 per cent of those questioned believe their partner is their soulmate.
But perhaps the most interesting – albeit worrying – discovery was that having sex without a emotional ties outside a relationship was not technically regarded as an affair by many.
While only 15 per cent of those asked admitted to having had an affair, the number confessing to being unfaithful shot up dramatically when the question was phrased as ‘sex outside your current relationship’.
A third of men and 19 per cent of women then said they had indulged in extra-marital relations.
The books goes on to explain that for many, the secret to a happy relationship includes having regular date nights, using pet names, holding hands, passionate kissing, back rubs and frequently saying ‘I love you’.
But the most important factor, that almost everyone surveyed agreed on, was communication.
In unhappy relationships, a lack of communication was cited as the number one reason for it breaking down.
