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Marriage and Happiness
This might be irresponsible of us not to bring up some crucial caveats to
such findings. First, researchers have shown that being married leads
people to report that they are happier with their lives in general (in
part because the question itself probably compels them to weigh the fact
of being married as signifying greater happiness), but being married
does not necessarily lead people to experience more happiness moment to
moment. For an instance, a study that tracked how married women occupy their
time during every hour of the day found that marriage confers both
benefits and costs to women, and that these benefits and costs appear to
offset one another. So, married women spend less time alone than their
unmarried peers and more time having sex,
but they also spend less time with friends, less time reading or
watching TV, and more time doing chores, preparing food, and tending to
children including other as usual things.
