Is a shared vegan lifestyle a good basis for satisfaction and stability in a relationship – or are vegans with partners who eat meat just as happy?
The introductory platform Gleichklang.de wanted to know and surveyed 635 vegans, all of whom were in a relationship at the time of the survey.
Result: Vegans with vegan partners reported happier and more stable relationships than those with meat lovers.
Those surveyed mentioned these six points most frequently as advantages of a joint vegan lifestyle:
► Making everyday life easier
► Better harmony of morals and ethics
► deeper and more harmonious understanding
► Possibility to strengthen together in the vegan way of life
► Avoiding confrontation with animal products in your own household or with your partner’s meat-eating
► Facilitation of raising children together.
It became clear that vegans are specifically looking for vegan partners. But vegan women were much less likely to be with vegans than vegan men.
The reason for this is that there are significantly more vegan women than men, which is also reflected in the current survey. 479 women, 137 men and 19 non-binary people participated.
For the graduate psychologist Guido F. Gebauer, the desire for vegan partners is understandable.
“It’s not about rigidity, intolerance, or a lack of acceptance of diversity, but about people’s genuine desire to experience a particularly deep form of connection and togetherness in their most intimate relationships,” he says.
Gebauer’s advice for vegans: When looking for a partner, also include non-vegan people who are open to a change to a vegan lifestyle.