Results: Where And How You Met That Someone
Published on 04/29/2023
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1.
1.
Are you currently married, engaged or in a relationship you'd like to lead to marriage? Yes
47%
936 votes
It's complicated...
9%
184 votes
No
44%
880 votes
2.
2.
If you are in one of the relationships referenced in the previous question, how did you meet the person (assuming it IS only one...) with whom you're in that relationship? Work
12%
233 votes
School/training
9%
172 votes
Internet (dating service, etc.)
7%
138 votes
Through a relative
5%
105 votes
Through a friend
15%
305 votes
Membership in the same (non-work) group
2%
43 votes
Shopping
2%
38 votes
Clubbing/Nightlife
5%
94 votes
Church/synagogue/temple/mosque/ashram/meeting hall/coven/other place or worship or spirituality
3%
53 votes
Other (please specify)
4%
88 votes
Not Applicable
42%
841 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.55% | 7 | |
| blind date | 0.39% | 5 |
| sports | 0.24% | 3 |
| None of your business | 0.24% | 3 |
| neighbor | 0.16% | 2 |
| vacationing | 0.08% | 1 |
| On a plane on vacation. | 0.08% | 1 |
| Through want ads in a newspaper. | 0.08% | 1 |
| at a concert | 0.08% | 1 |
| At his brothers memorial. | 0.08% | 1 |
| pen pals | 0.08% | 1 |
| Facebook friend request | 0.08% | 1 |
| In the apartment complex where I lived. | 0.08% | 1 |
| Dating app | 0.08% | 1 |
| Church | 0.08% | 1 |
| In a store | 0.08% | 1 |
| racquetball club | 0.08% | 1 |
| On a train | 0.08% | 1 |
| Jury duty | 0.08% | 1 |
| from my neighborhood | 0.08% | 1 |
| Answered a newspaper ad for a pen-pal | 0.08% | 1 |
| client of the agency I worked for | 0.08% | 1 |
| drs office | 0.08% | 1 |
| At post office | 0.08% | 1 |
| Co-ed softball | 0.08% | 1 |
| ran over her at roller skating rink | 0.08% | 1 |
| 4-wheeling in the snow. | 0.08% | 1 |
| Online gaming | 0.08% | 1 |
| at my job | 0.08% | 1 |
| I almost hit him with a frisbee in the park | 0.08% | 1 |
| the girl next door | 0.08% | 1 |
| Small beach bar in Panama City Beach. It was a friendly group of locals and I married bar tender we have be happly married since | 0.08% | 1 |
| In a pub | 0.08% | 1 |
| dentist office | 0.08% | 1 |
| Visited a nearby village | 0.08% | 1 |
| Through my husband | 0.08% | 1 |
| I was a pharmacist and my now wife was one of my customers until she invited me to come for coffee after work. | 0.08% | 1 |
| Travel | 0.08% | 1 |
| Classifieds in the local newspaper way back when | 0.08% | 1 |
| Online, thru ICQ, back in 1999 | 0.08% | 1 |
| picnic | 0.08% | 1 |
| through a dating service before the invention of the internet | 0.08% | 1 |
| Birthday party | 0.08% | 1 |
| Bowling league | 0.08% | 1 |
| Through a relative but a blind date | 0.08% | 1 |
| Bingo | 0.08% | 1 |
| On reading week | 0.08% | 1 |
| rehab center | 0.08% | 1 |
| While out on a "date", although it was not a serious relationship. | 0.08% | 1 |
| Met at my house after a fire started when Dad raked undergrowth down our front-yard bluff and it caught on fire. A friend stopped with my husband (to be) to see if they could help. | 0.08% | 1 |
| phone sex line | 0.08% | 1 |
| restaurant | 0.08% | 1 |
| He was my client | 0.08% | 1 |
| A neighbor | 0.08% | 1 |
| library | 0.08% | 1 |
| Party at friends house. Sadly, my husband has passed. | 0.08% | 1 |
| lived in same condo complex | 0.08% | 1 |
| wild unexpected | 0.08% | 1 |
| he lived by us | 0.08% | 1 |
| Rollerskating | 0.08% | 1 |
| The personals in the newspaper (25 years ago) | 0.08% | 1 |
| a party | 0.08% | 1 |
| A festival | 0.08% | 1 |
| High school | 0.08% | 1 |
| I'm with someone that I met through a friend but no intention of marriage | 0.08% | 1 |
| military | 0.08% | 1 |
| grew up together | 0.08% | 1 |
| we grew up together living next door to each other | 0.08% | 1 |
| Wedding | 0.08% | 1 |
| introduction service pre internet | 0.08% | 1 |
| cb radio | 0.08% | 1 |
| Eharmony | 0.08% | 1 |
| Same town | 0.08% | 1 |
3.
3.
Apart from joining a dating website or service, have you ever become a member of a group &/or patronized a place with an intention to meet someone who would become your spouse? Yes
8%
164 votes
It's still complicated...
8%
156 votes
No
84%
1680 votes
4.
4.
Apart from the rejection by you could have received from whomever it was to whom you were (and if now you're married or engaged, hopefully still are) attracted, did you have to contend with or negotiate around any policies that could have prevented you from initiating a relationship with the object of your affection, such as regulations against dating coworkers or others in the same organization you joined? Yes
7%
132 votes
Not to my recollection. Were there, I must have known of them.
11%
227 votes
No
33%
651 votes
Not Applicable
50%
990 votes
5.
5.
If you flouted any restrictions on fraternization of the sorts mentioned in the previous question, were whatever repercussions you faced worth the relationship to have come out of your flouting them? Yes
5%
105 votes
Still complicated.../Unsure/ I'd thought so at the time...
6%
127 votes
No
17%
346 votes
Other (please specify)
0%
8 votes
Not Applicable
71%
1414 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.68% | 4 | |
| Why are you being so nosy? | 0.17% | 1 |
| Your question was so wordy and complicated I had no idea what you even asked. | 0.17% | 1 |
| Bosses aren’t necessarily objective nor could you be the expert on relationships....think think think.... | 0.17% | 1 |
| It never turned out, and many years later is still a source of regret. I should have pushed it harder. | 0.17% | 1 |
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