For a Satisfying Marriage, Go for Exciting Over Pleasant
Results of a new study show that engaging in activities that you and your spouse view as exciting can help you feel more satisfied in your marriage.
"We did one experiment where we had people for two hours a week do something new and exciting and it dramatically increased the quality of their marriage," says Dr. Arthur Aron, from the Interpersonal Relationships Laboratory at the State University of New York.
Aron told KIRO Radio's Ross and Burbank that they had couples separately rate how they viewed a list of several activities.
"One set of couples were given activities that both had independently rated as highly exciting, but only moderately pleasant, and the other group were given activities both had rated as highly pleasant but only moderately exciting," says Aron.
