Someone told me "It's your dog that's keeping you single". Is this a thing?
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Yes it is, especially as we live in a society that has normalized anthropomorphizing pets (treating pets as if they are humans). This accelerates the decline of women's relationships and their dating options because the pets become a proxy for having children and often, a placebo partner.
Men typically don't seek to marry women with children, especially if they don't have children of their own. Dogs are like children too, they are commitments that significantly complicates your dating life. For example, you lose the luxury of making spontenous plans, because your dog (like a child) always has to be on the schedule. Also, most men don't want to compete (with an anthropomorphized pet) for a woman's attention and affection.
It's no surprise pets are a common source of breakups, (a study showed at least 80% of dog owners will not date someone who doesn't like their pets or someone their pets don't like). If a woman who owns a dog is hoping to find a partner who owns one, then she had to accept it significantly reduces her dating options, as single men who own dogs are about a third of single women who own dogs).
Men typically don't seek to marry women with children, especially if they don't have children of their own. Dogs are like children too, they are commitments that significantly complicates your dating life. For example, you lose the luxury of making spontenous plans, because your dog (like a child) always has to be on the schedule. Also, most men don't want to compete (with an anthropomorphized pet) for a woman's attention and affection.
It's no surprise pets are a common source of breakups, (a study showed at least 80% of dog owners will not date someone who doesn't like their pets or someone their pets don't like). If a woman who owns a dog is hoping to find a partner who owns one, then she had to accept it significantly reduces her dating options, as single men who own dogs are about a third of single women who own dogs).