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Breakpoint

Wedded Bliss Is True, Not Trendy

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Studies show that married couples are the most satisfied with their personal lives.

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With a one minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

0:04.5

And yet another study is suggesting that Americans are less satisfied with their personal lives, with one exception.

0:10.3

Married Couples, according to a recent study published by Gallup, while less than half, 47% of Americans in general are satisfied with their personal lives,

0:18.8

over half 57% of married couples report feeling very satisfied.

0:23.6

It's nearly 20 percentage points higher than their non-married counterparts.

0:27.2

Of course, this report does not mean that the only way to be happy and satisfied is through

0:31.6

marriage or that a single life cannot be beautiful,

0:33.7

meaningful, and happy. It often is. Still, given this popular narrative that marriage

0:38.1

always leads to misery and the record low numbers of young adults getting married

0:41.6

and the current push to mainstream quote-unquote

0:44.1

non-monogamy as good and healthy the truth about marriage needs to be told.

0:48.8

Not every institution should be revised to our modern ideas. People most satisfied with their lives are those old-fashioned

0:55.2

married couples because that's how God made it. I'm John Stone Street.

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