Interesting Relationship Studies and Facts

Relationships are an incredibly intriguing topic of study as they’re so amazingly relatable. All of us are in numerous relationships: friendships, romantic relationships, professional relationships, etc. Although all of us have some sort of experience with relationships, we never can detect what our brain chemistry will cause us to do. Relationships are full of a bunch of roller coaster turns-we never truly know where we’re going. We just have to have faith that we’re making the right choices along the way.

Match.com has released a list of 8 interesting facts about the psychological findings of relationships:

A Facebook study concluded that breakups occur most frequently in the Spring and right before the holidays. The lowest amount happens between the end of July and beginning of October.
“Many of us have a conscious list of what we want in a partner, but we also have an unconscious one that fulfills a part of us that we have not yet developed. “Often times, this has to do with feelings that are familiar and partners that are similar to one of our parents in some way,” says licensed psychologist Rachel Needle, Psy.D.
10% of marriage proposals are made by women, says author Myrna Lou Goldbaum.
It takes an average of 10-12 dates until household keys are exchanged, says the author of Breakthrough for a Broken Heart (That is so early, in my opinion!).
All couples fight over the same five things: money, sex, work, parenting, and housework, according to Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott.
“Couples have worn wedding bands on the fourth finger of their left hands since the Ancient Egyptians began doing so over 5,000 years ago,” says Carol Bruess, author of What Happy Couples Do. “They believed there was a vein in this finger that went directly to the heart.”
Joshua Foer published in The New York Times that men who kissed their wives goodbye in the morning experienced numerous benefits: fewer car accidents, higher income, and longer life. You heard me, get to that morning kissing!
“Five big reasons that new relationships fail to launch: 1) the new couple may differ in ambition; 2) daters may differ in openness to new experiences; 3) daters may differ in emotional intelligence; 4) daters may differ in sociability, and finally, 5) partners may differ in altruism or agreeableness,” says psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Ph.D., expert social scientist and contributor to Psychology Today