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Stuck at home with your partner? Look to retirees for how to make it work
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2073" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/stuck-at-home-with-your-partner-look-to-retirees-for-how-to-make-it-work-134834" target="_blank"><strong>Stuck at home with your partner? Look to retirees for how to make it work - The Conversation</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Across the country an unprecedented number of couples are suddenly spending every waking and sleeping hour of the day with one another.</p><p></p><p>That’s what <a href="https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019087" target="_blank">many older retired couples do too</a>, even when there isn’t a pandemic. Their experiences are worth listening to, because many psychology studies find that marriages among the Medicare-eligible set <a href="https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.79.4.644" target="_blank">are the happiest</a> of any <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/000312240807300202" target="_blank">cohort across the life span</a>.</p><p></p><p>A review of the research reveals a <a href="https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.88.1.189" target="_blank">U-shaped pattern of marital happiness</a> over the life cycle. Early marriage features many positive aspects interlaced with a lot of conflict, while older couples enjoy the highest levels of companionship with low levels of conflict. Midlife couples who are raising children are at the bottom of the U. They tend to see a plunge in their enjoyment of one another, along with an uptick in fighting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2073, member: 1"] [URL='https://theconversation.com/stuck-at-home-with-your-partner-look-to-retirees-for-how-to-make-it-work-134834'][B]Stuck at home with your partner? Look to retirees for how to make it work - The Conversation[/B][/URL] Across the country an unprecedented number of couples are suddenly spending every waking and sleeping hour of the day with one another. That’s what [URL='https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019087']many older retired couples do too[/URL], even when there isn’t a pandemic. Their experiences are worth listening to, because many psychology studies find that marriages among the Medicare-eligible set [URL='https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.79.4.644']are the happiest[/URL] of any [URL='https://doi.org/10.1177/000312240807300202']cohort across the life span[/URL]. A review of the research reveals a [URL='https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.88.1.189']U-shaped pattern of marital happiness[/URL] over the life cycle. Early marriage features many positive aspects interlaced with a lot of conflict, while older couples enjoy the highest levels of companionship with low levels of conflict. Midlife couples who are raising children are at the bottom of the U. They tend to see a plunge in their enjoyment of one another, along with an uptick in fighting. [/QUOTE]
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