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Couples who meet online have fine marriages

Relationship satisfaction for Internet daters is similar to that of people who find potential partners in more traditional ways

By Rachel Ehrenberg

- More than 2 years ago

Engaged couples who fear revealing that they met their partners on the Internet can now justify their relationships’ origins with data. A new survey of nearly 20,000 people who married between 2005 and 2012 finds that Cupid’s arrow flies as true for online daters as it does for partners who meet through more traditional venues.