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Comment author: MixedNuts 14 November 2012 01:54:56PM 3 points [-]

The social science is pretty settled that people we can be with in happy relationships are relativey common

Sources? In particular:

  • Why are divorce rates so high?
  • Why do people in this time and place expect to date around kind of a lot before finding someone they want to stay with? (Possibly they start out picky so no one works and then stop so many people do.)
  • Why am I attracted to only about a tenth of smart people in my age group enough to say yes if they asked me out, and only a couple percent enough to bother asking out myself? (Maybe it's uncorrelated to long-term suitability?)
  • Why, when I tried dating anyone who asked me out just to see how doing things normally worked, was it invariably catastrophic? (Maybe because I was living a lie in the first place.)