A quick scroll through these tweets and is it any surprise that a fair amount of people are choosing to stay single? That's not a made-up statement...
The 15th Annual Singles in America Study, conducted by the Kinsey Institute in partnership with Match.com, found that one in four people would turn down their perfect match if that person showed up tomorrow. Close to 5,000 single adults across the U.S. took part in the poll.
"Nearly half of respondents (48%) went on zero in-person dates in the past year. More than half said they were happier than they’d been in their last relationship, while 50.6% reported feeling more confident and 54.5% said they were less stressed," reports Vice.
The survey found that only 16% of respondents are actively seeking a committed relationship. That's not an incredibly high figure. What's more: a third of respondents said they'd been single for at least five years.
"For many of them, being single has simply been life for a while," Vice reports. "There’s work, friends, bills, weekends, family, bad dates when they bother, and everything else that fills a year whether somebody has a partner or not."
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Meanwhile, the 2023 Singles in America poll's central finding was that most single people actually like being single.
"They're happy to be pursuing their own passions, they feel more in control of their finances, and they're tired of society and media saying otherwise," reads a press release from back then. 48% of American singles agreed that "Singlehood is the most meaningful, authentic and fulfilling way of life."
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"Our perceptions of single Americans need to be reexamined," said Libby Rodney, futurist and chief strategy officer at The Harris Poll, the company tasked with carrying out the research. "We need to shift the dialogue from something society needs to fix, like in your standard rom-com, to something many people are finding fulfilling and are doing by choice."
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