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90% of men would avoid relationships to save money
Tuesday 11th November 2008We’ve all had friends who treat besotted boyfriends like cash machines: just a coquettish smile and a free drink appears, or some heavy hinting (and petting) results in a new pair of shoes. However, now it seems that men are wising up to their partners’ gold digging tendencies and opting to stay single.
Yes, it’s a sign that the economic downturn is really getting serious when over half of all British single men choose to stash their pennies rather then romance eligible women.
These statistics that will have wannabe WAGs shaking in their boots come from Skipton Building Society, who also found that 90% of British bachelors said they would forego romantic commitments entirely due to the current liquidity squeeze.
In a separate study by YouGov, 47% of 2,400 British adults stated that they would spend more money if they were in a relationship; whilst two-fifths of those open-handed ones who were actually in a relationship still grumbled that their partner was a spender rather than a saver.
So are women just getting a bad rap from the new generation of tight-fisted young men? Well perhaps not with 71% of women questioned admitting that they are failing to save up and still splurging on non-essential items.
As depressing as these statistics are, at least they explain a recent disastrous date of mine where the bill hovered on the table for a good 40 seconds between me and a sheepish City guy, until I finally said “so… shall we split it then?”
If romance was dead before, it seems that the credit crunch has slammed the coffin closed once and for all.
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