Love and Marriage: Random thoughts about love and marriage for women.

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Love and Marriage: Random thoughts about marriage for women.

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Although living alone is an accepted lifestyle today, the vast majority of adults expect to marry at least once. If they divorce, they are more likely to marry again than if they have never married.

Why?

Most men and women prefer companions of the opposite sex to fulfill both personal and social dependency needs. However, some people are able to meet their social and dependency needs without marriage.

Several studies have shown that married men are happier than married women.   Jessie Bernard in the book The Future of Marriage writes, "Not surprisingly, marriage benefits husbands more than wives."

Developing self-interests and close relationships help to balance a woman's life. A woman needs her own time, space, and her own life. To be totally dependent on a male and/or her family for fulfillment is risky.

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Although women are still assigned responsibility for the family relationships, women's satisfaction does not highly correlate with care giving. A study of pleasure (finding life enjoyable) and mastery (feeling important and worthwhile) found women need to understand and develop both aspects of well-being to feel good about themselves.

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