People who continue to stay with their spouse despite unhappy marriage are better off in the long run, a new research by Marriage Foundation claims.
The campaign group says that “unhappiness in a marriage is often just a short-term and fixable problem”.
Researchers found the majority of couples – who are unhappy when their first child is born – feel happy 10 years later.
The Foundation claimed that seven out of every 10 couples stayed together following the birth of their first child despite being unhappy and 68 per cent of them were happy 10 years later.
In fact, 27% said they were “extremely happy”, giving their relationships a score of seven out of seven.
The research suggests that a “grin and bear it” approach may well prove fruitful in the long run.
This data was gathered as part of the Millennium Cohort Study conducted by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, an economic research organisation based at the University of London.
