The reason why beautiful people are single

Good news singletons: According to a recent study, your single status has nothing to do with being 'too picky', 'too available' or 'too high maintenance'.

The real reason you're single, because you're too attractive.

The Harvard University study found that people who are physically attractive struggle to maintain successful long-term relationships.

Apparently, there are a variety of reasons for this, including a 'grass is always greener' mentality. Regulation hotties often grow up with a lot of romantic interest, and are therefore always looking around for other options.

The study's director, Christine Ma-Kellams, told Broadly, "Attractiveness gives you more options in terms of relationship alternatives, which might make it harder to protect a relationship from outside threats."

"In this sense, having too many other choices is likely not beneficial for relationship longevity."

Ma-Kellams makes a few suggestions for good-lookers if they want to get the long-term relationship thing down pat. "One possible takeaway for physically attractive people is to be aware of their own capacity and tendencies in close relationships," she said.

"Ending a relationship isn't necessarily a negative thing (depending on the perspective), but if the goal is to have an enduring one, then perhaps an attractive person should be mindful of their own limitations and not rely too heavily on their own appeal."

4 Member Comments

misfortune8 11 Jan 2019 2:57 AM

Alas, this is not my problem!

That formatting at the beginning & end of each paragraph is off-putting!

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duality 8 Jan 2019 12:12 PM

Not sure I agree, what one person sees as hot another doesn’t, some like slim, others like curvy, hair colour, height etc all vary according to personal preference. I think the whole too many options is the problem, we have a world at our fingertips therefore many options for meeting and forming relationships, the “old days” you had to schlep off to a bar or something. We are always connected via devices, if things get hard it’s easy to tap and find something easier.