subject: Lonely U.s. Soldiers Offshore Turning To Online Dating Sites [print this page] According to statistics gathered from a variety of leading online dating sites, an ever-increasing trend is surfacing with regards to U.S. soldiers posting online dating profiles.
This emerging trend is very much prevalent for men serving long term tours of duty inside battle torn locations including Afghanistan and Iraq. Eventhough President Barack Obama has planned an exit strategy for both wars, it appears this plan simply cannot come quickly enough for many home sick and lonely members of the military some of who have been cut off from love and companionship for upwards of two years.
Spokesperson, Dave Jenkins, who is the director of the Wellness and Relationships Centre in North Adelaide revealed this specific considerably increased online dating activity involving U.S. military and comments "right now there are still some 230,000 U.S. troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and our research informs us that 2% of these men are actively utilising either subscription based or free dating sites which amounts to around 4600 troops."
Mister. Jenkins has recently been following this particular pattern for the past several years and has documented a 110% upward trend on these statistics. In 2008, there was clearly an approximated 0.8% of U.S. troops utilizing singles online dating from within conflict territories, which has approximately doubled in accordance with the most up-to-date information.
Single soldiers who had served in foreign countries in excess of nine months on tours of duty appeared to be the most likely to use the internet to reach out to society given that their day-to-day lives had become so isolated. U.S. troopers have good access to the net and quite often take advantage of many other interactive internet platforms including Skype chat, and of course Face Book.
Weighing in on this particular study, Phil Taylor, a dating advisor from the reputable U.S. online dating site, Today's Dating has indicated "I confirm and validate about three hundred dating single profiles daily onto our internet site and there's a large number of singles user profiles coming through on a daily basis from U.S. troops in search of close friends and romantic endeavors, and to be truthful I can not help feel for them because their options to connect to reality can only come through means of their lap tops."
Further research coming out of the Wellness and Relationships Centre in North Adelaide shows that breakup levels have also been happening more often with regards to U.S troops serving overseas. War inside Afghanistan and Iraq is undoubtedly taking its toll on the state of mind and well-being among long-term serving soldiers and low morale is specially compounded at Christmas as well as Thanks Giving season.
In the event that those men are eventually discharged from their responsibilities, the psychological scars are destined to continue on having an influence on their developmental well-being. For a number of U.S. soldiers serving throughout wars, even after the battle zones have been exited, many may experience turmoil and difficulties hoping to establish and manage new and existing romances, why? On account that professionals tell us it will take some people quite a few years to fit back into regular society after surviving the day in day out loss of life and destruction war brings.
by: Matt Fuller
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