Wild marriage makes you happier than the marriage

Unmarried couples living in a wild marriage are happier, according to a study

19/01/2012

American scientists found that couples are on average happier and healthier than singles. However, a marriage certificate brings no advantage compared to wild marriage. The opposite is true: Unmarried couples are happier.

Couples have less contact with family and friends
The study of two US scientists at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York State, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison involved 2737 single women and men, of whom 896 contracted or married with their partner within six years.

According to a report in the„Journal of Marriage and Family“ The researchers found that couples are happier and healthier than singles. Married couples are even happier than married couples. This resulted in an evaluation of a national health register. Researchers Kelly Musick and Larry Bumpass, however, report that couples' health and well-being benefits are more than just „Honeymoon phase“ would quickly put back. Only one effect of partnerships is long-term: On average, couples have less contact with friends and family than singles.

Married people are healthier
After the test subjects were either contracted with their partners and married, the couples on average felt better and were healthier than single people. „This phase did not last long“, the scientists report. While married couples were healthier than unmarried couples - possibly due to benefits such as joint health insurance - unmarried couples on average felt more flexible, self-determined and stronger in their personality than married couples.

Kelly Musick explains: „The wedding has long been an important social institution, but in recent years in Western societies the number of partnerships has increased - before or instead of a wedding. The number of illegitimate children has also increased.“ However, marriage still has a higher status in the USA than other forms of relationship.

„The study shows that a partnership is equal to a marriage“, when the effects on health and the mind are included. It should also be remembered that a marriage today no longer hold to the end of life, as the divorce figures showed, the researchers conclude.

A happy partnership leads to weight gain
Last year, the Heidelberg sociology professor dr. Thomas Klein from the Max Weber Institute found in a representative survey of around 2,000 people that there is a context between a happy partnership and weight gain. He found that people living in a harmonious partnership were gaining weight, while single people often lost weight to be more likely to be more attractive. The sociology professor came to the conclusion that the lack of competitive pressure was largely responsible for happy couples feasting to their hearts content. On the other hand, single persons looking for a partner were exposed to great competitive pressure. They lost weight, hoping that a better figure would improve their chances in the opposite sex. The feasting of couples loud loud but then stop when the first crises in the relationship emerged.

Klein also investigated why men and women often share a similar body size within a partnership. He came to the conclusion that this was not the result of a particular eating or adapting behavior, but was the partner choice. As a rule, lean people would also choose thin partners and fat people would choose a more obese partner. (Ag)

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