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I once had a graduate student who said that computers were possessed. I think about her every time my computer behaves completely bizarrely. Sometimes I think blog posts are possessed, too. Some of them seem to come back from the dead years after I publish them. Seemingly out of the blue, people will be reading them, pinging them, and tweeting them. Thats been true of something I first published here in March of 2013, Every time you hear that getting married will make you happier, read this. But thanks to a heads-up someone sent me, I now have at least a hint as to why that post has had several new lives. It turns out that at Quora, a very popular question-and-answer site, that blog post was given as an answer to the question, What percentage of married couples are truly happy? That was in 2015, and the answer was viewed more than 10,000 times. Now another two years have passed, and there has been a resurgence of pings and such back to the post in just the last few weeks. I dont know which spirit has possessed the post this time, but Im grateful for it. Im delighted in the interest in the question of whether getting married makes you happier or healthier or makes you live longer or improves your self-esteem and all the rest. Ive been trying to debunk those claims, study by study, for two decades. Im going to republish the original blog post below, but Im happy to add here that there has been great progress in debunking the myths about marrying in the years since that post first appeared. This year, 2017, has been a banner year for toppling the myth that people who marry have better health than they had when they were single. Ive had the honor of writing about that for high-profile places such as the opinion page of the New York Times and NBC News. I try to maintain an updated list of all my myth-busting writings here on my personal website. And now here is the original blog post. Every Time You Hear that Getting Married Will Make You Happier, Read This. In 2011, a group of authors analyzed the results of 18 long-term studies of the implications of getting married for happiness. They wanted to know whether getting married makes people lastingly happier. The answer was no. I described those findings in detail here, so Ill just offer a brief overview before telling you about how social scientists tried to salvage the case for marriage in a subsequent paper. This article is going to be longer than usual, because I want to be very clear about what is wrong with the arguments that getting married makes you happier (or healthier or live longer or have better sex or anything else). There is, though, a Bottom Line at the end of the article, so feel free to skip to that. Results of 18 Long-Term Studies. In all 18 studies, the researchers began asking people about their well-being (happiness, life satisfaction, or satisfaction with their relationship partner) before they got married and continued asking them the same questions for some time afterwards. They found no evidence that getting married results in lasting increases in happiness or life satisfaction or satisfaction with the relationship. A few things made the results especially striking. First, the design of at least half of the studies (and maybe as many as 16 of the 18) was biased in favor of showing positive implications of getting married. Thats because only those who got married and stayed married were included in the research. If you want to know whether getting married will make you happier, you need to look at all of the people who got married, and not just those who got married and stayed married. If you are thinking of marrying, you have no way of knowing for sure if you will end up staying married.
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