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EverydaySpy Podcast

Andrew Bustamante

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4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Meet Andy and Jihi this February - the perfect couples Valentine's gift! https://everydayspy.com/couples

Marriage gets a lot of bad press, and it's no surprise why! Anyone who has tied the knot only to watch their sex-life decrease, fights increase, and stress peak around kids and career… we totally know your pain. But a ray of hope recently came out for married couples everywhere after a study at University of Chicago. Today, Jihi and I are sharing those results and giving you some insight into our own marriage… warts and all!

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0:00.0	A recent University of Chicago survey found that in American couples, getting married, resulted
0:07.4	in an increase, a significant increase in happiness, almost instantly, but only for the first
0:13.0	two years.
0:14.0	In the United States, after year two, there's a huge dip in happiness when you're married.
0:41.8	A recent University of Chicago survey found that Americans are largely happier after they are married, but only for the first two years.
0:43.5	No, that sounds about right.
0:45.7	I was like, I don't know what study that is.
0:47.8	Yeah, that sounds about right. So I know you're coming into this conversation cold.
0:50.4	I have been geeking out on marriage statistics for probably the last two hours because it's
0:56.6	just something that's been on my mind. It's been on my heart for a number of reasons. And I'll tell you
1:00.3	more about it why later. But I thought this was absolutely a brilliant, brilliant study. So let me
1:08.0	just give you a quick overview. A general social survey was carried out by a professor at the University of Chicago in
1:18.6	2003.
1:19.6	It took him about a year to finish.
1:21.6	So it came out late 2023.
1:23.6	Everybody's talking about it now in 2024.
1:26.6	And it found that in American couples, getting married
1:30.6	resulted in a increase, a significant increase in happiness. The same study was actually carried out
1:37.1	in Germany and in Taiwan, and the same result was found to be true, that getting married
1:42.8	made people happier almost instantly.
1:46.1	And in all three countries, it lasted for a minimum of the first two years.
1:52.5	In the United States, after year two, there's a huge dip in happiness when you're married.
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