Happy spouses (five years later) rated their marriage a five, six, or seven on
the same marital happiness scale.
Not exact matches
In the
same way that Steve Jobs wouldn't have predicted his biggest competitor to be the salvation his dying company needed, you might not identify
marital conflict as an integral component to deep
happiness in your marriage.
But divorce is not the
same as
marital quality or, more specifically,
marital happiness — another important outcome.
Using the
same sample assessed in the first year of marriage, Mudar, Leonard, and Soltysinski (2001) examined the effects of husband and wife drinking on
marital quality (combination of
marital happiness and conflict).