On average, they wanted a new partner more than women did, and they were less content without one. Among heterosexual adults, 73 percent of men had entered a new relationship within ten years of a breakup, compared with 61 percent of women. Hoan and MacDonald concluded: “Our results suggest that single women, on average, report higher levels of satisfaction with relationship status, life satisfaction, sexual satisfaction, and lower desire for a partner.” A person who isn’t chasing a relationship isn’t automatically “over” heartbreak faster or slower than a person who is. Applied here, that means the guy who’s dating someone new two months after his last relationship isn’t necessarily shallow, and the woman who’s in no hurry at all isn’t necessarily still hurting.