Marilyn Monroe immortalised the ‘Seven Year Itch’ in her 1955 romantic comedy, yet a new study from Brigham Young University in the USA suggests that it is actually after 10 years that spouses should start to worry…
The researchers spoke to over 2000 women aged over 35 and, rather depressingly, found that most said that happiness and communication decline soon after marriage and never get any better.
The problems reach their peak after 10 years, possibly due to increasing household chores and childcare issues, but if you can hang on for another 5 years, things get slightly better.
It seems that after 15 years of marriage the feelings of restlessness begin to wane, continuing to decrease until the couple have been together for 35 years, when nearly a third of couples reported that things began to get better.
Maybe they just can’t be bothered to argue any more!
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