Those who rated their move as
a decision had happier marriages later on.
Not exact matches
Astro: If they go through the process of asking whether
marriage is working for them without the fear and shame that the sacred cows produce, they'll still probably
have some soul searching to do and maybe a lot of pain to go through, but it
would be less than it
would be otherwise and they'll probably end up in a
happier place if they can make that
decision free of that fear.
I can tell some of your commenters don't know very many conservative Catholics, evangelicals, and Mormons, but I can assure you all the ones I
've ever known (which is a LOT of them) are very
happy about their
decisions to remain virgins and even for some, unkissed, until
marriage (as a Catholic I don't believe there it is morally superior to abstain from kissing prior to
marriage, but I respect the right of others to choose to do so).
When I ended my
marriage, I made a very conscious
decision that I
had had enough of relying on others to make me
happy and of giving to the point of personal exhaustion.
I'm
happy to
have discovered that there is life after
marriage with a PA man, and I applaud my
decision to leave him.
One recent study looking at two decades worth of research on more than 1,000 married American couples found that those who shared equally in making
decisions were more likely to
have happy, low - conflict
marriages than those who did not.
More research into this
has found that the
happiest, most stable
marriages in the long run were those where the husband treated his wife with respect and did not resist sharing power and
decision making with her.