Sentences with phrase «earlier than married couples»

Recently, there have been some interesting studies that show that cohabiting couples — a hugely growing segment of society — often go to couples therapy earlier than married couples and, guess what, they feel more satisfied and committed by the experience.

As the study notes, «Without the institutionalized rules of marriage, cohabiting couples may perceive threats to their relationship earlier than married couples.»

Not exact matches

Although the middle - years couple has been married longer than those described earlier, and therefore are more «set in their ways,» the issues aroused and the approaches called for are much the same.

Analyzing data from more than 8,000 married couples — with an average age in the early 60s — researchers found that the physical health and cognitive functioning of a person's spouse can significantly affect a person's own quality of life.

When now - married couple Rudy Gehrman, DC, and Lynda Salerno - Gehrman first met in the early 2000s, it was a perfect match, in more than just the romantic sense.

The FFCWS studies add to a large body of earlier work that suggested that children who live with single or cohabiting parents fare worse as adolescents and young adults in terms of their educational outcomes, risk of teen birth, and attachment to school and the labor market than do children who grow up in married - couple families.

On average, she reports, cohabitors begin living together at an earlier age than marrying couples, but «when couples are compared by the age at which they move in together and start taking on the roles associated with marriage, there is no difference in divorce rates between couples that lived together before marriage and those that didn't.»

That's because couples who marry in their teens or early 20s are at least twice as likely to divorce than those who wait until 30.

Couples that marry in their teens and early 20s are more likely to divorce than people who marry later.