It probably goes without saying that Valentine’s makes for a busy time at a dating site. It’s just sort of amazing to me that it is. It’s the middle of winter, everyone’s just gotten over the Christmas season, and yet we find time to dedicate a holiday to love. Isn’t love sort of a bit of a holiday every day? It was so busy in fact that it took me a few days to write about it.
Personally, I feel fortunate that I have a wife that honestly doesn’t care for Valentine’s. We have both our dating anniversary later in the month and wedding anniversary a month later that mean a lot more to us. Here in Dallas, the restaurants have a nasty habit of raising prices for the holiday so avoiding them saves us a bit. (No ill will to the restaurants, higher demand should result in higher prices) However, we took the opportunity to poll some of our daters about Valentines and the results were surprising. The dating survey results are here.
It amazed me how much people would be willing to give up for one day, and how important both sexes felt that it was. I guess I have the stereotype that women care, but men comply because they have to. Our data showed that it was pretty much the same for both sexes.
Any one else have any thoughts about this?
Tags: Dallas, surveys, Valentines
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