Meta Analysis: Marriage And Childbirth Make You Miserable (Unless You Read This)

Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 16:40 in Psychology & Sociology

After marriage your well-being dips and after divorce it rises; after childbirth, relationship satisfaction stays permanently below its pre-birth level -– so says a meta-analysis of 2,159 studies, published this week in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Sound dire? It is. But keep reading – the reasons for these dips and rises give us married-with-children guys hope. read more

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