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True or False: The longer a couple is married, the more boring and passionless the marriage becomes.
False. According to researcher Richard Levenson, who for the last 20 years has been conducting a study on long-term marriages. “Marriages continue to be really just as emotional, in terms of the overall amount of emotions, in middle and late life as they do early in life,” according to Levenson.
The research data show that for some couples there is a dip in marital satisfaction during the middle years, when children are in school and careers are being built. But then, after the children leave home and as retirement approaches, those couples who stay together rediscover the love they had in the early years of their marriage.
What does the research show to be the keys to long-term marriage success? There are two: (1) communication and (2) emotional maturity.
This entry was posted on Sunday, September 7th, 2008 at 8:28 pm and is filed under Marriage Dynamics.
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