43 % of singles say they get out of their comfort zone in summer, according to a Meetic study. Does this season really change the rules of the romantic game? This is revealed by this survey conducted as the holidays approach, where the summer atmosphere seems to promote the opening to the unexpected, the differences in the usual criteria … and sometimes some sentimental surprises. A phenomenon far from being marginal, supported by very concrete figures.
Does the sun lower sentimental requirements?
If there is one season where standards are negotiated, it’s summer. Led in June, the survey shows that men are more likely to be carried by the season (50 %) than women (34 %). Without necessarily questioning everything, summer acts as a SAS where relational habits are loosened, where the desire to try new experiences takes over. According to the responses of the respondents, this is the ideal time to revisit your own expectations. Unsurprisingly, the first criterion on which singles are the most flexible is the physical: 50 % recognize being able to ignore a “favorite”. A figure that climbs to 53 % in men, compared to 45 % in women.
But this is not the only land where compromises gain ground:
- 36 % claim to be able to review their requirements on temperament or personality;
- 26 % are open to adjustments linked to location or living environment;
- 16 % drop a little ballast on the standard of living or social status.
Conversely, 28 % claim to remain faithful to their standards, whatever the season. This minority imposes an emotional consistency, which heat or ambient lightness is not enough to have faltered.
Rules rewritten for a few weeks
The study does not say if these summer openings lead to lasting romantic stories, but it highlights a change of state of mind. Less attached to their classic criteria, singles let themselves be guided by the atmosphere, the meetings of chance, the desire to live the present moment. For many, it is precisely this lack of pressure that creates new opportunities.
The phenomenon is all the more interesting since it is part of a well -known emotional calendar: summer corresponds to a period of mental availability, relaxation, sometimes of geographic mobility. The perfect setting to make certain interior barriers fall, even temporarily.
What Meetic shows is that in matters of seduction, the seasons count. And that summer, even without promise of tomorrow, allows some singles to allow themselves to experience something else, otherwise.