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24/08/2009What's love got to do with it?

What's love got to do with it? What happens when you are told that love isn't enough to sustain a relationship? That in fact all the fairytales, romance novels and romantic comedies left out something crucial: everything else.

A recent study titled What’s Love Got To Do With It? by three Australian researchers claims to have identified what makes a couple less likely to split up.
 
Factors they explored include age, money, children and cigarettes. And if this sounds more like a soap opera plan than the checklist for a happy marriage, think again. It is exactly what the researchers focused attention on. Love, apparently, is not enough.
 
The researchers followed 2482 couples from 2001 to 2007 who were either married or cohabiting, and compared characteristics of those who stayed together and those who separated.
 
The study found that certain age factors affected long-term happiness. For example, a husband who is nine or more years older than his wife is two times more likely to divorce her at some point. This was also the case for men who married before the age of 25.
 


The research also looked at other more obvious factors like the separation of husband’s parents and low household income, which made relationship failure more likely. Other apparently innocuous factors such as whether “one spouse smokes where the other does not” and where the “wife drinks more than her husband” also indicated a higher risk of marital separation.

Idil Abshir
Radio Netherlands




1 reaction to this article

Nora posted: 2009-08-26 14:50:56

There are more aspects of a healthy marriage than cigarettes. In my own work, mutual respect and staunch validation of each others is the "glue" of long lasting marriages. Get the free ebook: "Healthy Marriage" here:
http://passiveaggressivehusband.com/
Thanks!

1 reaction to this article

Nora posted: 2009-08-26 14:50:56

There are more aspects of a healthy marriage than cigarettes. In my own work, mutual respect and staunch validation of each others is the "glue" of long lasting marriages. Get the free ebook: "Healthy Marriage" here:
http://passiveaggressivehusband.com/
Thanks!

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