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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The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.
~ Genghis Khan
When she said she liked Pickups, I thought she meant trucks.
"...love and marriage..."
Yet for some reason Mathew 1:1-17 and in the third chapter of Luke showed a very interesting set of family histories in regards to the Savior.
The name for men who have done so is exacly the same, and there is no difference between the two.
“Only way for guys to avoid world of hurt is to not get married. Take Pauls advice and stay awsy from women.”
I don’t think it’s quite that bad. The key is finding a woman from a family that still values marriage. Typically that means having to go overseas for a wife.
Actually, I found it to be a clever commentary on the secularist’s view of traditional christian marriage. Whether 2banana meant it that way or not notwithstanding.
No s*it, right?
Dont marry the town public toilet. Like this needs to be studied.
Hillarious! And so true!
You seem to be reading a different Bible than I do. Try the New Testament
bs.
cite your specific differences from mine— or concede you are making a specious point.
Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete them.
Matthew 5:17
https://www.catholic.org/bible/book.php?id=47&bible_chapter=5
And check out the homicide rate.
As I think Gilda Radner once observed: "If you can't be a Good Example, you'll just have to serve as a Horrible Warning."
But as Paul pointed out, Jesus was descended from Sarah (Wife #1, the “free woman”), not Hagar “the slave.”
God, through the Apostle Paul, was exactly correct. When we join sexually to a person there is a union. When that union is casual and then discarded, you’re essentially discarding a part of yourself, like cutting off an arm.
I think the definition of “happiness” needs be be reiterated and reaffirmed here.
It is NOT feelings of good times. I know a lot of partiers, and their facebook accounts are full of photos of them at the bars, smiling with their bazillion “friends.” Most of these people are decidedly not happy.
bathsheba, 7th wife of david.
speculative. calls for interpretation.
The Hebrew word in Deuteronomy 17:17 translated “multiply” in the KJV is “rabah”, which does mean to increase or multiply. Originally, God made just one wife for Adam, not several wives; this is what Jesus was referring to “from the beginning” (Matthew 19:4, Mark 10:6).
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