{"id":19021,"date":"2013-07-29T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/?p=19021"},"modified":"2013-07-29T12:59:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T19:59:48","slug":"is-it-the-end-of-young-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/is-it-the-end-of-young-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It The End of Young Marriages?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bcu2-shared.onlinebootycall.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/weddingpic.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no surprise to you that we at OBC believe in waiting for marriage &#8211; or heck, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/3-reasons-marriage-is-outdated\/\" target=_blank>not getting married at all<\/a>. However, we know that the marriage tradition will probably live on for quite some time, at least until people realize they can throw themselves a bad-ass party without having to contractually chain yourself to another human being for the rest of your life. <\/p>\n<p>ANYWAY, new research has arisen that shows more people are joining #TeamMarriageCanWait! According to a study shared by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/health-news\/childhood-sweethearts-more-likely-to-endure-the-earlier-you-were-born-study-reveals-8730748.html\" target=_blank>The Independent<\/a>, while a third of couples in their sixties are each others&#8217; high school sweethearts, only 14% of couples aged 40 &#8211; 50 are with the first person they fell for. <\/p>\n<p>According to the study,<\/p>\n<p><i>Research suggests that enduring childhood sweethearts are becoming an endangered species, as <b>young people have more relationships and delay getting married and settling down \u2013 giving them greater opportunity to meet potential partners<\/b>. Greater levels of geographic mobility and job changes have also contributed to relationships being less likely to endure.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Greater levels of geographic mobility&#8221;? We&#8217;re pretty sure that&#8217;s due to technological advances and societal norms changing, or in other words, THE FUTURE IS HERE, HONEY, YOU BEST GET ON BOARD. <\/p>\n<p>We hope this trend continues, and remind people that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\" target=_blank>OnlineBootyCall<\/a> is the best place to find likeminded singles who are down to hook up but aren&#8217;t necessarily looking for The One (although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/tag\/testimoanial-tuesday\/\" target=_blank>so many end up finding them<\/a>)!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/sfmoms\/2009\/09\/29\/kids-at-weddings-yay-or-nay\/\" target=_blank>Image via SF Gate<\/a><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-19021\" data-postid=\"19021\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-19021 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no surprise to you that we at OBC believe in waiting for marriage &#8211; or heck, not getting married at all. However, we know that the marriage tradition will probably live on for quite some time, at least until people realize they can throw themselves a bad-ass party without having to contractually chain yourself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10547,166,201],"class_list":["post-19021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating-and-sex","tag-high-school-sweethearts","tag-marriage","tag-single-life","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19061,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19021\/revisions\/19061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}