Getting married doesn’t make you happier; being the type of person who gets married (and stays married) correlates with being happier. From the linked article:
Data from the 15-year study of over 24,000 individuals living in Germany also indicates that most people who get married and stayed married are more satisfied with their lives than their non-married peers long before the marriage occurred.
I’ve heard somewhere that after you exclude divorced and widowed people, the correlation between being married and happiness entirely disappears. I tried regoogling it without success, but maybe more effort will get you the original research.
FWIW, this seems inconsistent with the evidence presented in the paper linked here, and most of the other work I’ve seen. The omitted category in most regression analyses is “never married”, so I don’t really see how this would fly.
Getting married doesn’t make you happier; being the type of person who gets married (and stays married) correlates with being happier. From the linked article:
I’ve heard somewhere that after you exclude divorced and widowed people, the correlation between being married and happiness entirely disappears. I tried regoogling it without success, but maybe more effort will get you the original research.
FWIW, this seems inconsistent with the evidence presented in the paper linked here, and most of the other work I’ve seen. The omitted category in most regression analyses is “never married”, so I don’t really see how this would fly.