Law Firm Marketer Says Downturn Changed Dating Scene
Men aren’t asking law firm marketer Natalie Hudson out on dates nearly as often since the market downturn.
“They’re spending more time at networking events, happy hours, with their guy friends—trying to get leads on jobs, rather than spending it on women,” she told the Washington Post.
The newspaper talked to Hudson at the Eighteenth Street Lounge as part of its research on the dating market after the crash. Hudson, who was drinking a Manhattan with female friends, said she feels bad for men who lost their jobs, but she doesn’t see them as dating prospects.
“I guess I’m kind of traditional,” she told the Post. “So if a guy can’t really take you out or doesn’t have the money or the state of mind to take girls out, then it’s not going to go anywhere,” she told the newspaper.
The Post found that Hudson is in like company. “For many affected by the recession, dating is the least of their worries,” the story says. “But the market crash has had a particular impact on young adults who developed their dating skills in fat times, the twentysomethings who spent lavishly to show that they could afford the finer things.”
The newspaper spoke to one laid-off investment banker from Cleveland who used to regularly fly to Manhattan, where he took his girlfriend to upscale restaurants. Now he lives with his mother in Alexandria, Va., and takes the bus to visit the girlfriend. “It’s definitely putting stress on our relationship,” he said.
