I was doing some quick research for a story I’m working on, which is based in London, and I found some interesting facts about british singles on the BBC Web site.<\/p>\n
More than half of single British women are happy to stay unattached, according to a survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n The poll, for market research group Mintel, found 56% of single women were « very happy » with their lives as they were and had no desire to be married.<\/p>\n It found 46% of single men felt the same, but one in four said they missed the « comfort and closeness of a hug ». <\/p>\n Almost half of single men questioned said the biggest downside of living alone was « not having enough sex ».<\/p>\n For women, the biggest gripe was that people always assumed they wanted to be in a relationship. <\/p>\n Researchers at Edinburgh University also found that:<\/p>\n There are now more single men in their thirties<\/a> than women. Figures from the Office for National Statistics show the number of men choosing to remain single and live alone has reached record levels.<\/p>\n Between the ages of 25 and 44, men have been found to be twice as likely as women to live by themselves.<\/p>\n The lifestyle of the reluctant female singleton was shown in Helen Fielding’s best-seller Bridget Jones’s Diary and its sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.<\/p>\n But in the real world there are more than 1.65 million men aged between 30 and 39 who are single in the UK – up more by than 50,000 from last year. Compared to 1.27 million women in the same age range, making « Brad Jones » the new Bridget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was doing some quick research for a story I’m working on, which is based in London, and I found some interesting facts about british singles on the BBC Web site. More than half of single British women are happy to stay unattached, according to a survey. The poll, for market research group Mintel, found… Continue reading The new Bridget<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}