New Brigham Young University research finds that people in happy marriages live less “in sickness” but enjoy more of life “in health.” In a 20-year longitudinal study tracking health and marriage quality, BYU family life researcher Rick Miller found that as the quality of marriage holds up over the years, physical health holds up too. […]
Bernstein describes the results of a series of six studies that followed 100 couples for the first seven years of marriage. Researchers at the University of Iowa found that both husbands and wives feel lower marital satisfaction when they are given too much advice from a spouse, as opposed to too little. And—surprise!—unsolicited advice is […]
New Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative report on cultural strategies to enhance program participation Read more and download.
Researchers at the Relationships, Emotion and Health Lab at San Fransico State University followed 127 middle-aged and older long-term married couples across 13 years, checking in to see how they communicated about conflicts from housework to finances. The researchers found that while most aspects of demand-withdraw communication remained steady over time, both husbands and wives […]
"Marriages among many of the nation's elite troops — Navy SEALs, Green Berets, Rangers and others — are so damaged after years of war that one in five commandos say that if given the chance, they would have married someone else or not at all. The results of a first-ever survey of special operations […]
Relationship problems can keep us awake at night. But new research from UC Berkeley suggests that sleepless nights also can worsen lovers’ fights. UC Berkeley psychologists Amie Gordon and Serena Chen have found that people are much more likely to lash out at their romantic partners over relationship conflicts after a bad night’s sleep. […]
The real question here isn't "Why so many babies?" It's "Why so few marriages?" And we have an answer. Derek Thompson | Atlantic Monthly Read more
Marriage conference and class for active/reserve military and veterans. FREE to the first 20 couples to register. On Saturday, July 13, Better Marriages is partnering with Marriage Management to offer a FREE 6-hour class for active/reserve and veteran military couples. Enter "No Payment Required" on the online registration checkout page. www.BetterMarriages.org/conference
Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Region IV, Hispanic Healthy Marriage & Responsible Fatherhood Strengthening Families Forum: A Conversation: Connecting, Educating and Networking with Communities. This Forum is designed specifically for faith and community-based organizations, healthy marriage community coalitions, colleges and universities, healthy marriage and fatherhood grantees, public and private organizations, Head Start and Community […]