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 happinessabout 13 percentage points lower than the one-partner womenbelong to women who have had six to 10 sexual partners in their lives. For men, theres still a dip in marital satisfaction after one partner, but its 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 doesnt say one thing predicts the other.
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and jesus descended from a polygamous relationship.
so what.
Give it a break.
Never mind David’s missteps with Bathsheba and what he was moved to do to her husband. (And David already had six wives before her.) Deuteronomy 17:17 was an explicit command against polygamy, particularly for kings, but for everyone.
Id love to send this to my ex wife. Yeah, her infidelity is why shes my ex, and I was her 3rd husband...
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ohhhkayyy
Frank Barone said it best: “What did I tell you? If you are having problems with your woman you don’t go out and get another one, NOW YOU GOT TWO PROBLEMS!”
no, it recommended kings not take “many” wives, leaving “many” mathematically undefined. 2? 3? 7? 8? 10?
equating “many” to “two or more” is reading more into the words than what is there.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/many
1 : consisting of or amounting to a large BUT INDEFINITE number
Jesus didn't have a male bloodline; he was the offspring of God.
spoken like a true man lover.....
but I agree..hateful men such as you should stay away from women...quit bothering them and continue your long love life with the pics on your computer...
I would say this study might have gotten it backward. It might not be that fewer sex partners itself leads to happiness its that the type of people that tend to sleep around less also tend to be happier in the monogamy of marriages. Also whenever you see a survey about sexual activity, for women in general born less than 40 years ago double or triple the number of partners they claim. For men, halve or cut it into a thirds.
Marriage used to be a fair deal, today not so much as far as men are concerned. Leaving aside everything else from a pure legal/economic perspective it is often not in a man’s best interest to marry.
Sure it is. Maybe just not yours.
Mgtow.
Yeah but their still married, haha.
Perhaps the old song, ‘Cheaper to keep her’ applies here.
mgtow’s a little too extreme for my tastes. I’m still not convinced you have to be a virgin to see the truth, at least lets pray that things aren’t that bad.
Not hateful, I just know what women are.
Issac one wife hardly any problems Jacob 4 wives tons of problems.
Yeah, I was thinking you SHOULD only have one sex partner while youre married, preferably your wife.
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