Love is not enough to make a marriage work

A new study conducted by Australian National University researchers conclude tha Love is not enough to make a marriage work. The study found that money played a major factor in deciding whether a couple stand the test of time. A couple's age, previous relationships and even whether they smoke or not are factors that influence their relationship

To reach the conclusion, boffins spent six years monitoring 2,500 couples who were married or living together, reports The Daily Express.The study, entitled What's Love Got to Do With It, showed that :-

• A quarter of partnerships and marriages will end within six years and half will be over within 25 years.
• It also found that a husband who is nine or more years older than his wife is twice as likely to get divorced, as are husbands who get married before they turn 25.
• Also, partners who are on their second or third marriage are 90 percent more likely to separate than spouses who are both in their first marriage.
• Couples were twice as likely to split if the wife had a much stronger preference for children or for more of them. Women who want children much more than their partners are also more likely to get a divorce.
• Money also plays a role, with up to 16 percent of respondents who indicated they were poor or where the husband -- not the wife -- was unemployed saying they had separated, compared with only nine percent of couples with healthy finances.
• Smoking and drinking rates also contributed to relationship breakdown where where one partner, and not the other smoke or drink.

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What Makes a Marriage Good

Without love there would be no wedding, and certainly no marriage. Love is the catalyst for commitment. Love is what insures that every marriage starts out good. But sooner or later every good marriage bumps into negative things. And that's when honest couples discover that love, no matter how good, is never enough.

A good marriage is built by two people's capacity to adjust to negative things. A good marriage is made up of when two people who take ownership for the good as well as the bad, healing the hurts they don't deserve, living the love they promise, walking in each other's shoes. The couple who posses above quality can successfully live healthy marriage life, Because problem can arise at any form and these quality help them to fight with them. Beside these qualities Money played a major factor in deciding whether a couple stand the test of time.

"Love asks for everything, Not just for a little bit, or a whole lot, but for everything." And how hard it is to give everything!. Many things improve because of marriage, but some things become more difficult. Every successful marriage, for example, requires necessary losses. For starters, marriage means coming to terms with new limits on one's independence. It means giving up a carefree lifestyle. Even to people who have dreamed for years about getting married and who think of themselves as hating to be alone, marriage still cannot help but come as an invasion of privacy and independence.