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It is a truth universally acknowledged that lockdown was a boom time for dating apps. And now that the world is finally opening up again, single people are stampeding towards them in even greater numbers â Hinge has reported a 63 per cent spike in downloads since 2019 and a tripling of revenue in 2020, while May 2021 alone saw more than 6.5 million people downloading Tinder.
But while this level of interest might be new, actually being on a dating app seems, anecdotally, to be the same old story: a largely fruitless cycle of swiping, matching, initial interest and near-inevitable disappointment. Nobody whoâs spent any amount of time on them would be surprised to hear that Tinder and Grindr rank in the top 10 of apps most likely to leave users feeling sad (meanwhile, not a single dating or hook-up app made a parallel list of the 15 apps most conducive to happiness).
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We know a lot about the causes of relationship breakups, thanks largely to the work of John Gottman at the University of Oregon. In one study of couples with nursery-age children his team were able to predict with 93.6 per cent accuracy which pairs would split up within three years. In another – this time with newlyweds – the team predicted with 87 per cent accuracy which pairs would separate within 4-6 years and with 81 per cent accuracy which would go their separate ways within 7-9 years.
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