Does the level of conflict in a marriage decrease as time goes by?
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No. It stays the same. So if you’re happy with it now, great. If you think you and your spouse fight too much, well…
A new study suggests that your current level of conflict probably won’t change much for the remainder of your marriage.
That may be good news for the 16 percent of couples who report little conflict or even the 60 percent who have only moderate levels of conflict. But it’s not such happy news for the 22 percent of couples who say they fight and argue with each other a lot.
The study followed nearly 1,000 couples over 20 years, from 1980 to 2000.
“There wasn’t much change in conflict over time,” said Claire Kamp Dush, lead author of the study and assistant professor of human development and family science at Ohio State University.
Source: Science Daily
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