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Marriage proposals increase during the holiday season

And if the holidays corresponded to a particular moment to ask his sweetheart in marriage? It seems that this period indeed increases the number of requests, according to a survey carried out by Chillisauce, a British event organizer company. The latter interviewed no less than 10,000 people, asking them what was the best symbolic date for them to formalize their desire for union.

Results? To choose between 7 proposals, Christmas is the most successful! December 24 thus comes first with 31%. It is followed by Valentine's Day, which records 22%, then New Year's Eve, with 18%. The anniversary date of the meeting – which could have seemed an auspicious day – obtains only 11%, followed finally by the anniversary, which obtains for its part 9%. What explains this popularity? “During the Christmas holidays, you bring the family together, while the marriage proposal is a symbolic creation of this new family “, explains on Slate Ellen Lamont, a sociology professor.

Good resolutions…

But that's not all, the site relays another hypothesis:the end and the beginning of the year would be above all periods of questioning, where we ask ourselves questions about the year that is ending, and where we make our good resolutions for the new one... This is how "many people choose to consolidate their relationship... or break them off ".

Because the first month of the year is also the one that inspires a new beginning... As we told you at the beginning of the year, a study conducted by the extramarital dating site Victoria Milan shows that 45% of couples questioned think that January is the most auspicious month to separate. In any case, here are our tips for managing well if this happens to us!