Go Ahead and Live in Sin! Science Says It’s Okay
There are plenty of nice reasons to get married, but increasingly the basic experience of being married doesn’t seem all that different from simply living together without ever making it legal—or living in sin, as our grandmothers like to call it. Now there’s some new research that proves that the line between marriage and cohabitation has been blurred to such an extent that it’s barely visible. The study, which appears in the Journal of Marriage and Family, found that being married doesn’t really have any long term advantage over living together—at least in terms of happiness, health, and one’s social life.
What researchers discovered was that there’s an initial bump in well-being right after a person marries or moves in with someone, as compared to staying single. But this advantage was short lived—in other words, the honeymoon came to an end and people fell back down to reality, which can be a miserable place whether you’re married or single.
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lilmsmayshine reblogged this from christinechronicles and added:
Yup, this is why I’m a-ok if I never...married. But, I would
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