Single Survey Finds That Men are Quick to Fall in Love

(EndPlay Staff Reports) - A new survey suggests that men are just as eager to fall in love as women.

Match.com , which published the singles in America study, claims the survey breaks myths such as guys don't want to get married.

Rather, the survey found, 33 percent of both men and women said they want to get married. As far as singles without children under 18, 24 percent of men compared to 15 percent of women said they want children.

Another finding is that women, not men, need more independence in relationships to do their own thing. Dr. Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist who serves as the scientific adviser to Match.com, stated that 58 percent of men compared to 77 percent of women say they need personal space.

Fisher said men under 45 are more willing than older men and women to be committed to someone who has the qualities they desire in a partner but whom they do not find sexually attractive. It's men, she said, who are more likely to have experienced love at first sight and more likely to be open to introducing a date to their parents.

"This 'Single in America' study supports what I have long suspected: that men are just as eager to find a partner, fall in love, commit long term and raise a family," Fisher stated on the website . "It's an illuminating, indeed myth-shattering, new set of scientific data."

Fisher, author of "Why We Love" and a Rutgers University researcher, is criticizing popular beliefs about men as she uses her survey of 6,000 men and women to back up her theories.

"Men fall in love faster than, and just as often as, women," she told New Scientist . She said men are more likely to want to move in together and are 2.5 times more likely to kill themselves when a relationship is over.