Who Gets More Out of Marriage, Women or Men?
She makes me tense. He argues with me. She appreciates me. Husbands and wives rate each other, and their unions.
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The best marriages are win-win propositions, in which both spouses end up happier and healthier than they’d be if they were single.
In many long-married couples, however, husbands seem to be getting the better end of the deal. A study in the latest issue of Social Psychology Quarterly finds that married women over 50 rate the quality of their marriages lower than their husbands do.