Singles' dating prospects
Turkey dinner talk no-no: Singles' dating prospects
Despite being unattached, spending time around family members during
the holidays is important to a majority of singles, but please don't
grill them about their social lives.
More than two-thirds of the 24,916 participants in an Internet survey
conducted by the Chicago-based dating service It's Just Lunch, said
they dread being asked by family members about their dating prospects.
Forty-seven percent said they expected to be asked over the holidays
about their dating lives, but listen up family members: 72 percent
indicated that they didn't care to be questioned about their personal
social lives.
Eighty-eight percent of the online participants in the Test Your
Dating I.Q. survey described the ideal Thanksgiving as being "an
eclectic gathering of family and friends."Another 6 percent said
they would rather travel with a date to an exotic destination for
Thanksgiving.
After dating someone for two months, some 38 percent of the respondents
said they'd be comfortable asking that significant other to join the
family's holiday dinner. However, another 34 percent were reluctant
to bring along anyone they had dated for less than six months.
It's Just Lunch, with franchise offices in Albuquerque and Santa
Fe, says Americans spend more than $500 million a year in personal
ads to attract a date. The ranks of singles have grown over the past
three decades, from 60 million in 1970 to 100 million in 2000, according
to the U.S. Census Bureau, which projects singles to number 110 million
by 2010.
