Marriage becomes twice as strong, if a husband and wife - best friends

"Family Friendship" - the key to a happy family life, a recent study the causal relationship between marriage and life satisfaction found that people who think their spouse (or spouse) best friend, get more pleasure out of wedlock, compared with the other.





About how much more satisfying in question?

If you believe the research undertaken by the economists John Hellivell from the Vancouver School of Economics and Sean Grover from the Canadian Finance Department, the "marriage has twice as many favorable consequences for those spouses who believe they are the best friends».

Claire Cain Miller of "New York Times" shares his observations:

"Marriage in the past half century has undergone a radical change. In the past, wrote Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker, the marriage was utilitarian. Women looking for men to get money, and men looking for women, so they ran the household. But in recent decades, the role of men and women in marriage become very similar. As a result, both partners act as partners and agents, this applies especially to those who have financially everything is stable. The advantages of this "family friendly" is most clearly manifest in middle age, when most people experience a decline in life satisfaction, which is usually due to the fact that a career and a family consuming too much energy. "Family Friends" perfectly suits to a very tense environment, as here, the couple have not only a general cargo and general friendship ».

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