According to a new study, it takes around six months, or 172 days, for a person to decide if the person they are dating is marriage material. Researchers polled 2,000 coupled and uncoupled people and found that married and single people have very different ideas of how long it will take them to find the person they wanted to marry.
While singles concluded they would need at least 210 days before making such a big decision, it was the married participants that believed 172 days was sufficient.
“Romantic partners might incorrectly assume that deciding to tie the knot is a lengthy and deliberative decision,” Nadav Klein, a PhD student at the University of Chicago and co-author of the study, told The New York Post. “Our findings suggest that people misunderstand how quickly they make judgments.”
