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So Is Living Together Before Marriage Linked to Divorce or What?
Late last month, the Journal of Marriage and Family published a new study with a somewhat foreboding finding: Couples who lived together before marriage had a lower divorce rate in their first year of marriage
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A Good Marriage May Help You Live Longer. Here’s Why
If you have a happy marriage, “’til death do us part” may be a long ways off. Married people who rated their unions as “very happy” or “pretty happy” had roughly 20% lower odds of
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You 2.0: When Did Marriage Become So Hard?
Marriage is hard. In fact, there’s evidence it’s getting even harder. Eli Finkel, a social psychologist at Northwestern University, argues that’s because our expectations of marriage have increased dramatically in recent decades. “[A] marriage that
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Put a Ring on It? Millennial Couples Are in No Hurry
The millennial generation’s breezy approach to sexual intimacy helped give rise to apps like Tinder and made phrases like “hooking up” and “friends with benefits” part of the lexicon. But when it comes to serious
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Study: Mental conditioning with cute animal pictures can rekindle your relationship
James K. McNulty of Florida State University and his team of psychological scientists were not expecting this. They’d wondered if they could use conditioning to warm the hearts of married couples gone a little cold
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Can marriage make you sick?
Is hostility in your marriage stressing or depressing you? Does your partner have a chronic disorder? Then watch out. Although married people generally have better health than others, studies have found, partners in these two
