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Affair site registration skyrocketed after Mother's Day

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Last year, on the day after Mother's Day, 31,427 women signed up for the Ashley Madison website--an affair-related dating site--which is roughly ten times their usual number for a Monday.

 

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I found this to be interesting, and I wonder if it'll happen again this year. The divorce rate may only be 50% or so, but it sounds like there's a lot of unhappiness out there...

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Don't blame the creator. she/he is just a smart business person who decided to make a fortune of off other's stupidity. I'm sure none of these 31,247 women were forced to sign up, same goes for the men.

 

...so shame on them!!!

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For all you know many of those women are professional escorts or prostitutes -or teenagers/old men, etc. No way of knowing. It also could be from a link that someone received, thought ashleymadison was a spa or shopping site and accidentally clicked.

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For all you know many of those women are professional escorts or prostitutes -or teenagers/old men, etc. No way of knowing. It also could be from a link that someone received, thought ashleymadison was a spa or shopping site and accidentally clicked.

 

Hairsplitting the atom again, Batya? True, it COULD be anything, but I think we all know what that is in actuality.

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Lots of cheaters out there, that's for sure.

 

That's why it's important, if you want a monogamous, faithful relationship, to really take the time to find someone who WANTS it too, and just because "that's what everyone is doing".

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Hairsplitting the atom again, Batya? True, it COULD be anything, but I think we all know what that is in actuality.

 

No I disagree- many people post profiles on web sites claiming to be a certain gender, age, married, single -when the reality is quite different. For all we know the same person might have activated 100 profiles -from what I have heard it's free to post a profile. Also some women might be doing it to entrap their husbands/SOs (a friend of mine did this). I don't think it's hairsplitting at all -it's wild speculation based on the possibility of who posted those profiles, how many people those profiles represent, and why they were posted.

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BTW, there's no way you could mistake Ashley Madison for a spa. I've seen the homepage. "Affair affair" everywhere, suggestive pictures, etc.

 

Right but if a link is sent and it takes you right to the sign up page you might not look at exactly what it is. One of many reasons that the number quoted likely is not accurate.

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Right but if a link is sent and it takes you right to the sign up page you might not look at exactly what it is. One of many reasons that the number quoted likely is not accurate.

 

Why did the numbers spike after mother's day, then? If the vast majority of people who get married are as happy as can be, and the only reason it looks bad is because of...misleading links and fake profiles, why would they go up like that?

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Why did the numbers spike after mother's day, then? If the vast majority of people who get married are as happy as can be, and the only reason it looks bad is because of...misleading links and fake profiles, why would they go up like that?

 

Because correlation is not always causation. Or someone who works for the site reporting fake or inaccurate numbers to make it look like it spiked right after mother's day. In any event even if it were true it still doesn't mean they are all that unhappy or unhappy to the level of actually cheating - they might have had a bad or disappointing day (May and June are big months for wedding anniversaries), they might have been trying to snoop on a husband they suspected of cheating, etc. And of course there's no proof that any of the women who signed up (if they were women and were married or in relationships rather than teenagers playing a game, prostitutes, unstable people playing a game) are mothers.

I do find it sad when people choose to focus on such a speculative situation rather than focus on the vast numbers of people who are in happy marriages or relationships - certainly when I was single it didn't help me a bit to tell myself "look at all the unhappy couples -glad I'm single" - that was one of those short term bandaids and it's never productive to focus on a negative generalization like that anyway.

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Because correlation is not always causation. Or someone who works for the site reporting fake or inaccurate numbers to make it look like it spiked right after mother's day.

 

A vast conspiracy plotting against the wholesome families of America! Quite scandalous.

 

As for focusing on the negative...if I thought marriage was in my best interest, I'd absolutely do it. But after examining all the evidence--both society-wide and from what I've personally witnessed--I'm maintaining my anti-marriage policy. Stories like this only strengthen my belief.

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A vast conspiracy plotting against the wholesome families of America! Quite scandalous.

 

As for focusing on the negative...if I thought marriage was in my best interest, I'd absolutely do it. But after examining all the evidence--both society-wide and from what I've personally witnessed--I'm maintaining my anti-marriage policy. Stories like this only strengthen my belief.

 

Obviously if you already have that mindset, then you're going to grasp at these kinds of straws to "validate" what you think. Nothing wrong with being against marriage - not sure why it's some sort of "policy" rather than simply personal to you (maybe I misunderstood what you wrote). LOL- no conspiracy theories here -I just think it's silly to focus on this sort of article as "evidence" of anything.

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By the whole "no conspiracy theories" here thing, I take it you're retracting your convoluted "it's not married women signing up, it's fake profiles and misled people" theory?

 

I just think it's silly to focus on this sort of article as "evidence" of anything.

 

The divorce rate and what I've seen with my own eyes is all the evidence I need. The post-mother's-day spike is merely an interesting (and, I think, symbolic) symptom, one that I felt was worth pointing out.

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By the whole "no conspiracy theories" here thing, I take it you're retracting your convoluted "it's not married women signing up, it's fake profiles and misled people" theory?

 

 

 

The divorce rate and what I've seen with my own eyes is all the evidence I need. The post-mother's-day spike is merely an interesting (and, I think, symbolic) symptom, one that I felt was worth pointing out.

 

I didn't have a theory -I gave multiple reasons why the numbers have little or no relevance IMO -and none of it "convoluted" since there are so many and varied reasons why a site like that might see an increase in the number of profiles claiming to be women (and the article never said that the women signing up were mothers). I don't think it's symbolic of anything or worth pointing out.

 

I don't think someone with your mindset should marry but nor do I see the point in trying to convince anyone else not to marry.

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