Posted on 10/22/2018 9:54:09 PM PDT by DeweyCA
Over at the Institute for Family Studies, Nicholas Wolfinger, a sociologist at the University of Utah, has found that Americans who have only ever slept with their spouses are most likely to report being in a “very happy” marriage. Meanwhile, the lowest odds of marital happiness—about 13 percentage points lower than the one-partner women—belong to women who have had six to 10 sexual partners in their lives. For men, there’s still a dip in marital satisfaction after one partner, but it’s never as low as it gets for women,...
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In an earlier analysis, Wolfinger found that women with zero or one previous sex partners before marriage were also least likely to divorce, while those with 10 or more were most likely. These divorce-proof brides are an exclusive crew: By the 2010s, he writes, just 5 percent of new brides were virgins. And just 6 percent of their marriages dissolved within five years, compared with 20 percent for most people.
Other studies’ findings have also supported the surprising durability of marriages between people who have only ever had sex with one another.
In this latest study, women who have had one partner instead of two are about 5 percentage points happier in their marriages, about on a par, Wolfinger says, with the boost that possessing a four-year degree, attending religious services, or having an income over $78,000 a year has for a happy marriage. (In his analysis, he controlled for education, income, and age at marriage.)
This analysis merely suggests that sleeping with fewer people is correlated with marital happiness; it doesn’t say one thing predicts the other.
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That does not preclude that Jesus had a human mother, mary, who in turn was descended from a polygamous relationship.
“We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations – we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.”
My wife lives in another country and only comes to visit.
Exactly
Thus demonstrating once again the spiteful conceit of contemporary American women.
Compared to your brand of grief, pictures on a computer are an improvement.
I would go even further and say, especially for women, the fewer sex partners you have the happier you are all around.
So, do they have more partners because they are not happy people to begin with or do they become unhappy because of their choices.
Yes. Some people refer to Deuteronomy 17:17 (not take many wives) as a limitation to one wife for a king. “Heart must not turn away” brings to mind situations where kings with many wives and/or foreign wives were later led into idolatry by wives who started indulging in it (especially foreign wives or wives who socialized with foreigners). On David, see II Samuel 12:8, where Nathan said of David’s six wives, that he could add six and six more if necessary (like them and like them). Even with that allowance and blessing that was sufficient, the evils were committed.
Don’t marry a skank. They needed to do a study to come to that conclusion?
Hehe. Some kiss and tell, others don’t. I am just going to say 21+ is a damned low arbitrary number. Very happy in a monogamous marriage, but we both sowed our wild oats. Being “Suavey and Deboner” with a hell of a sense of humor peaks their interest. Asking for it blows their minds and ends up about 30/60/10. 30% of the time you get some and 70% of the time you get slapped and 10% of the time the slap was foreplay.
NOW wasn’t formed to make women happier, it was a radical group of lesbian marxists who wanted to “smash monogamy” “smash the patriarchy” and “smash the state”.
A happy marriage was unwelcome in their worldview.
Kate Millet was a certifiable nut.
If you read your Old Testament you will find that just about the entire story of the Patriarchs is what evil comes from multiple wives...
What’s the over/under on Ford’s “64 partners before graduating college?”
I have a theory that is because most married women don’t know how lovely sex can be with someone who doesn’t treat them like a surfboard, so they don’t seek it.
I thank God my wife did not have much to compare me to. Ignorance is bliss.
“We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations – we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.”
You would be amazed at the number of people staying miserable to breathe “life” into the legal construct referred to as “the marriage”. What horsesh8t.
Looks like the army of perverts and degenerates masquerading as “experts” for the last several decades has been proven wrong.
Truth straight from the Bible. Absolutely right. "In this life you will have much trouble." Not one person who marries will be immune.
WHAT?
I don’t know many women who have slept with 20 men. We used to have a name for that and it rhymed with “butt”.
TRS
Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters.
~ Genghis Khan
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