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Retirement Is Supposed to Finally Hand Long Married Couples All the Time Together They Spent Decades Dreaming About, but It Is Actually Blindsiding a Shocking Number of Their Marriages With Real Strain

It isn’t being retired that strains a marriage. It’s becoming retired. That distinction comes from a…

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Couples Therapy Used to Carry a Quiet, Shameful Stigma as an Absolute Last Resort for Marriages Already Collapsing, but Demand for It Has Exploded to Levels Therapists Say Reflect a Real Crisis in How Couples Are Coping

Family and couples therapy appointments booked through the mental health platform Headway rose 140% between 2023…

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Sharing One Bed Every Single Night Has Long Been Treated as Sacred, Nonnegotiable Proof of a Genuinely Strong Marriage, but a Shocking Share of Happily Married Couples Now Sleep in Completely Separate Rooms

More than a third of American adults regularly or occasionally sleep in a separate room from…

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Five Love Languages Became Sacred Gospel for an Entire Generation Desperate to Save Their Relationships, but Psychologists Are Now Quietly Admitting the Theory They Sold Millions of Couples On Barely Holds Up at All

Only 26.5% of couples in a peer-reviewed test of Gary Chapman’s five love languages actually matched…

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Video Games Still Get Blamed for Quietly Pulling Couples Apart and Devouring All Their Time Together, but Couples Who Actually Game Together Report Feeling Dramatically Closer Than the Ones Who Do Not

Seventy-six percent of couples who game together said it had a positive effect on their marriage….

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Chores Look Perfectly Split Fifty Fifty on Paper in a Lot of Modern Households Now, but One Exhausted Partner Is Still Secretly Carrying Almost the Entire Mental Load of Running the Whole Family

Forty percent of dual-income couples say household chores are split evenly, according to a Pew Research…

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Renewing Your Vows Used to Be a Quiet, Low Key Anniversary Gesture Reserved for a Handful of Sentimental Couples, but Long Married Couples Are Now Turning It Into an Entire Second Wedding All Over Again

Sixty-nine percent of couples planning a vow renewal say they intend to have a reception, according…

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Premarital Counseling Still Gets Dismissed by a Lot of Couples as a Pointless, Old Fashioned Box to Check Before the Wedding, but Couples Who Actually Sit Through It Get Divorced Far Less Often Later

Couples who complete a premarital education program face roughly 31% lower odds of divorce than couples…

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Inheritance Is Supposed to Be the One Financial Topic Families Handle With Grace and Maturity After a Parent Dies, but It Is Actually Blowing Up a Shocking Number of Adult Sibling Relationships for Good

Twenty-seven percent of American adults have cut off contact with a family member entirely, roughly 67…