Sentences with phrase «satisfying than marriages»

Not exact matches

Couples prefer to stay in less - than - satisfying marriages over losing the equity they have built up in their homes.

At the same time, marriages and families have become essentially emotional and egalitarian relationships rather than institutional and hierarchical ones, Thus, when marriage and family fail to satisfy, when they do not make all members feel «happy» and «fulfilled,» then these arrangements begin to dissolve, or at least to be regarded as needing repair.

Some men in minority cultures are finding, as they move into the middle - class world through job or profession, that friendship between women and men is possible and that a companionship marriage can be more satisfying than the one they have grown up with and married into.

Men increasingly aren't interested in marriage, finding gaming and sports more satisfying than women.

She doesn't sound much different than my middle - aged friends who have «relatively decent, somewhat satisfying lives» while staying in loveless and sexless marriages.

«There's trust and respect,» Finkel says, adding that the best of these modern marriages are substantially more satisfying than those of your grandparents».

Women with husbands rated less attractive than average were less satisfied with their marriage once they were off the pill.

A 2013 study by Harvard and Chicago universities found that spouses who met online were both more satisfied in their marriages and less likely to get divorced than couples meeting offline.1 Our members are diverse, but they all share one common goal — to find lasting love.

In addition, a 2010 study of more than 23,000 married couples showed that similarity on the major dimensions of personality (e.g., neuroticism, impulsivity, extroversion) accounted for a mere 0.5 percent of how satisfied spouses were with their marriages — leaving the other 99.5 percent to other factors.

While satisfying sex was the main motivator, others confessed that their illicit behaviour was an attempt to be happier in the marriage, rather than to damage it.

The study found that married people who met online were slightly more satisfied with their marriage than those who met offline and slightly less likely to have a marriage fall apart.

eHarmony users scored well: couples who had met on the site were more satisfied with their marriages than couples who had met on Match.com, via friends or family, or at a bar or other social gathering.

Now a study funded by the Santa Monica - based firm offers scientific evidence that husbands and wives who met online are more satisfied with their marriages than couples that met the old - fashioned way.

Also screened: Sadako Vs. Kayako (Grade: B --RRB-, an entertaining, teen - friendly marriage of the The Ring and The Grudge mythologies that (thank God) has a sense of humor about itself, even though its final confrontation is less than satisfying; Dearest Sister (Grade: C +), a poetic (and rather slow) meditation on class conflict couched in a ghost story from Laotian director Mattie Do; and Down Under (Grade: B --RRB-, a Superbad - style profane coming - of - age comedy set against the backdrop of the Cronulla race riots that took place in Sydney, Australia in Christmas 2005.

One study conducted in 2012 in Hong Kong looked at the marital and sexual satisfaction of more than a thousand married men and women and found that a woman is 40 percent less likely to be satisfied with her marriage if she is better educated than her husband, compared to when they are equally educated.

A healthy and satisfying sex life is an important part of a healthy marriage, but there is more to it than the bedroom.

If so, and all the other criteria relevant to the case are satisfied, a payor spouse's current earnings, even if higher than those earned during the marriage, can be used to determine the amount of alimony to be paid.

«Couples who cohabit before marriage (and especially before an engagement or an otherwise clear commitment) tend to be less satisfied with their marriages — and more likely to divorce — than couples who do not.

But even odder, women in the study who got together with their future husbands while taking hormonal birth control and who later stop using the medication also become less satisfied with their marriages — but only if their husbands were less attractive than average.

And get this: they're also 3.5 times more «sexually satisfied» in their marriage than couples who don't make time for each other.

For example, women who began dating their husbands while on the pill who were still on the pill during their marriage were more sexually satisfied, on average, than women who were on the pill when the couple started dating, but who quit after the honeymoon.

Among couples still married after four years, husbands and wives with doubts were significantly less satisfied with their marriage than those without doubts.»

When the husband does his share to maintain the home, both he and his wife report a more satisfying sex life than in marriages where the wife believes her husband is not doing his share.

It means making marriages better — happier and more satisfying — than they are already.

And even the wives (who had doubts) who stayed together after four years were significantly less satisfied with their marriage than wives who did not experience these doubts.

A marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor licensee shall not use more than 10 hours of distance education to satisfy requirements.

That is, at times, a person can make a choice (like not to move in with a particular partner at a particular time) that improves their odds of eventually having a lasting, satisfying marriage — which may well be with someone other than the person they decided not to move in with.

This is both good and bad because it means that you are reaching for the pinnacle of what marriage has to offer — which explains why couples in healthy marriages are happier now than in the past — but it also means that meeting those expectations and feeling satisfied in marriage is harder than ever.

< FONT FACE = «ARIAL, HELVETICA» > Fact: While couples who experienced premarital counseling claim to be more satisfied in their marriages than couples who did not, in the end there is no difference in marital outcomes between those couples who have had extensive premarital counseling and those who have not.

Mothers of children with ASD are less satisfied with marriage and less positive about their family's adjustment to taking care of the child than mothers of children with Down syndrome and typically developing children, while no such differences in the case of fathers of children with autism were found [35,36].