By contrast,
most unhappy spouses who stayed married ended up happier five years down the road.
Does this mean that
most unhappy spouses who divorced would have ended up happily married if they had stuck with their marriages?
Most unhappy spouses who stuck with their marriages ended up happily married: Sixty - four percent of unhappy spouses who avoided divorce ended up happily married five years later.
Some of
the most unhappy spouses are the ones who married someone hoping they would change.
Not exact matches
Perhaps the
most common story the
spouses we interviewed told us is that marriages become
unhappy because of outside stressors.
In
most respects,
unhappy spouses who divorced and
unhappy spouses who stayed married looked more similar than different (before the divorce) in terms of their psychological adjustment and family background.