Due to jobs, kids, TV, the Internet, hobbies, and home and family responsibilities, the average married couple spends just four minutes a day alone together.
In the United States, over 50% of first marriages end in divorce, 67% of second marriages end in divorce, and nearly 74% of third marriages end in divorce. Over 75% of people who marry partners from an affair eventually divorce.
One in three American marriages is
“low sex” or “no sex.” A low or no sex marriage has a high probability of
separation or divorce within 12 months.
The U.S. average marriage age for women is 25.6 and for men, 27.7. A person’s level of education influences the age at which they marry. Couples tend to marry later in states with higher numbers of college-educated adults, while the opposite is true for states with lower education levels.
In ancient Greece, Solon (638-538 B.C.) once contemplated making marriage compulsory, and in Athens under Pericles (495-429 B.C.), bachelors were excluded from certain public positions. In Sparta, single and childless men were treated with scorn. In ancient Rome, Augustus (63 B.C.-A.D. 14) passed drastic laws compelling people to marry and penalized those who remained single. A marriage ceremony typically ends with a kiss because in ancient Rome, a kiss was a legal bond that sealed contracts, and marriage was seen as a contract.
The average married couple has sex 58 times per year, or slightly more than once a week. For many people, marriage does more to promote life satisfaction than money, sex, or even children. Compared to singles, married people accumulate about four times more savings and assets. Married elderly people are more likely to maintain daily health-promoting habits, such as exercising, not smoking, eating breakfast, and having regular medical check-ups.
More than friendship, laughter, forgiveness, compatiblility, and sex, spouses name trust as the element crucial for a happy marriage. Eighty-one percent of happily married couples said their partner’s friends and family rarely interfered with the relationship, compared to just 38% of unhappy couples. Eighty-five percent of married couples have had premarital sex. Nearly 60 percent of married couples have had an affair, with most affairs occurring within the 25-39 age bracket The cost of an average wedding is $20,000.
The cost of an average divorce is $20,000. Words form only 7% of our communication with anyone, including spouses. Tone of voice accounts for 38% and body language is responsible for 55% of the messages spouses receive from each other. Women who report a fair division of housework were happier in their marriages than women who thought their husbands didn’t do their fair share.
A person’s happiness level before marriage is the best predictor of happiness after marriage. In other words, marriage won’t automatically make one happy. Researchers found a huge decline in happiness four years into a marriage with another decline in years seven to eight. This is why half of all divorces occur in the first seven years of marriage, which gives rise to the popular term “the seven-year itch.”
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