First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage – and then what?
That was the question bugging UC Berkeley psychologist Robert Levenson in the 1980s when the U.S. divorce rate peaked at around 50 percent. So in 1989, he and fellow psychologists — John Gottman at the University of Washington and Stanford University’s Laura Carstensen — launched a longitudinal study of 156 middle-aged and older couples in the San Francisco Bay Area who had survived the slings and arrows of early wedlock, and were in it for the long haul.
To read the original article: Forever Valentine: Study shows marriage gets better in old age | ScienceBlog.com
