I’d also be interested to find out what proportion of EA marriages are to non-EAs, and what proportion are relationships that began before either party discovered EA. I feel like that’d affect what the best explanation of this trend would be.
For one data point, I got married this year (~1.5 years after learning of EA), my relationship began before I discovered EA, and my partner is not an EA.
And I’m 23, so apparently I might be ~25% of the married EA cohort in my age group. (Though I wasn’t married in 2018 and may not have taken the survey then, so I’m not actually one of the four married 18-24 year olds shown there. Also, I’d guess that EA has grown and that this will slightly increase the size of each cohort.) So perhaps my one data point can be extrapolated from to a greater extent than one would intuitively assume.
I’d also be interested to find out what proportion of EA marriages are to non-EAs, and what proportion are relationships that began before either party discovered EA. I feel like that’d affect what the best explanation of this trend would be.
For one data point, I got married this year (~1.5 years after learning of EA), my relationship began before I discovered EA, and my partner is not an EA.
And I’m 23, so apparently I might be ~25% of the married EA cohort in my age group. (Though I wasn’t married in 2018 and may not have taken the survey then, so I’m not actually one of the four married 18-24 year olds shown there. Also, I’d guess that EA has grown and that this will slightly increase the size of each cohort.) So perhaps my one data point can be extrapolated from to a greater extent than one would intuitively assume.
If you allow me a little joke, maybe this can be explained by people trying to follow the “marry to give” path?
(I’ll indeed allow the little joke, and will furthermore add a link to the hilarious post which I think orginated that phrase, for anyone who hasn’t had the pleasure of encountering it yet.)