<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">See this NY TImes op-ed - do not go by the title.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/opinion/sunday/for-a-better-marriage-act-like-a-single-person.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_ty_20180212&nl=opinion-today&nl_art=12&nlid=4405288&ref=headline&te=1" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/opinion/sunday/for-a-better-marriage-act-like-a-single-person.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_ty_20180212&nl=opinion-today&nl_art=12&nlid=4405288&ref=headline&te=1</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 class="title" style="font-size: 1.95552em; line-height: 1.2141em; -webkit-hyphens: manual; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia;">For a Better Marriage, Act Like a Single Person</h1><div class="singleline metadata" style="-webkit-hyphens: manual; margin-top: -0.75em; margin-bottom: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px;"><div style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;" class=""><span itemprop="author creator" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="margin: 0px; font-weight: bold; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;" class="">By <span data-byline-name="STEPHANIE COONTZ" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; font-weight: normal !important; display: inline !important;" class="">STEPHANIE COONTZ</span></span><span class="delimiter" style="margin: 0.07em 0.45em 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;"></span><time datetime="2018-02-11T18:04:04-05:00" itemprop="dateModified" content="2018-02-11T18:04:04-05:00" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 1em !important; display: inline !important;" class="">FEB. 10, 2018</time></div></div><header style="max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px;" class=""></header><div style="max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px;" class=""><div style="max-width: 100%;" class=""><figure data-media-action="modal" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/02/11/opinion/sunday/11coontz/11coontz-master768.jpg" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" aria-label="media" role="group" class="clear" style="margin: 1.4em 0px; max-width: 100%; font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: -apple-system-font; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65098); clear: both;"><div style="max-width: 100%;" class=""><img alt="" data-mediaviewer-src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/02/11/opinion/sunday/11coontz/11coontz-superJumbo.jpg" data-mediaviewer-caption="" data-mediaviewer-credit="Josh Cochran" itemprop="url" itemid="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/02/11/opinion/sunday/11coontz/11coontz-master768.jpg" class="" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0.5em auto; display: block;" apple-inline="yes" id="FBE8B72F-58B0-470B-8801-4AA3E87B7E73" src="cid:BFDDD70A-2FEE-4665-9589-3751FEF4EC62@nyc.rr.com"></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" style="max-width: 100%; margin-top: 1em; width: 674.59375px;" class=""><span itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="max-width: 100%; margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.25em;" class="">Josh Cochran </span></figcaption></figure><p data-para-count="191" data-total-count="191" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">OLYMPIA, Wash. \u2014 Especially around Valentine\u2019s Day, it\u2019s easy to find advice about sustaining a successful marriage, with suggestions for \u201cdate nights\u201d and romantic dinners for two.</p><p data-para-count="245" data-total-count="436" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">But as we spend more and more of our lives outside marriage, it\u2019s equally important to cultivate the skills of successful singlehood. And doing that doesn\u2019t benefit just people who never marry. It can also make for more satisfying marriages.</p><p data-para-count="329" data-total-count="765" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">No matter how much Americans may value marriage, we now spend more time living single than ever before. In 1960, Americans were married for an average of 29 of the 37 years between the ages of 18 and 55. That\u2019s almost 80 percent of what was then regarded as the prime of life. By 2015, the average had dropped to only <a href="http://books.wwnorton.com/books/webad.aspx?id=4294994895" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;" class="">18 years</a>.</p><p data-para-count="439" data-total-count="1204" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">In many ways, that\u2019s good news for marriages and married people. Contrary to some claims, <a href="https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2015/07/17/no-you-should-get-married-in-your-late-40s-just-kidding/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;" class="">marrying at an older age</a> generally <em style="max-width: 100%;" class="">lowers</em> the risk of divorce. It also gives people time to acquire educational and financial assets, as well as develop a broad range of skills \u2014 from cooking to household repairs to financial management \u2014 that will stand them in good stead for the rest of their lives, including when a partner is unavailable.</p><p data-para-count="241" data-total-count="1445" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">What\u2019s more, single people generally have wider social networks than married couples, who tend to withdraw into their coupledom. On average, unmarried people interact more frequently with friends, neighbors, co-workers and extended family.</p></div></div><div style="max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px;" class=""><div style="max-width: 100%;" class=""><p data-para-count="648" data-total-count="2093" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">Socializing with friends and family and participating in clubs, political organizations, teams, unions and churches are essential components of what sociologists call social integration. And health researchers report that maintaining high levels of social integration provides as much protection against early mortality as quitting smoking. In fact, having weak social networks is a greater risk factor for dying early than being obese or sedentary. One analysis of 148 separate health studies found that people who cultivated a wide network of friends and other social relationships <a href="http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316&utm_source=zapier.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zapier" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;" class="">had a mortality risk 50 percent lower</a> than those with weak ties.</p><p data-para-count="681" data-total-count="2774" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">Having a large network of friends rather than relying mainly on family is especially beneficial. A long-term study of more than 6,500 Britons found that men and women who reported having 10 or more friendships at age 45 <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120822222649.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;" class="">had significantly higher levels of psychological well-being</a> at age 50, whatever their partnership status, than people with fewer friends. And two recent studies of nearly 280,000 people in almost 100 countries by William Chopik of Michigan State University found that <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz24I-5wgnenaGVmZ25DUDlPaUU/view" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;" class="">friendships become increasingly vital </a>to well-being at older ages. Among older adults, relationships with friends are a better predictor of good health and happiness than relations with family.</p><p data-para-count="584" data-total-count="3358" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">Don\u2019t get me wrong. Marriage can provide a bounty of emotional, practical and financial support. But finding the right mate is no substitute for having friends and other interests. Indeed, people who are successful as singles are especially likely to end up in happy marriages, in large part because of the personal and social resources they developed before marrying. <a href="https://contemporaryfamilies.org/trouble-with-averages-briefing/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;" class="">One representative study</a> of nearly 17,000 people found that almost 80 percent of those who married had reported the same levels of well-being four years <em style="max-width: 100%;" class="">before</em> their marriage as they reported four years afterward.</p><p data-para-count="305" data-total-count="3663" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">It\u2019s true that, on average, married people report higher well-being than singles. But <a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002214650404500106" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;" class="">mounting research</a> indicates that most of the disadvantages of singles compared with the currently married are accounted for by distress among the <em style="max-width: 100%;" class="">previously</em> married, especially those most recently divorced or widowed.</p><p data-para-count="567" data-total-count="4230" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">This suggests an intriguing possibility, says the Ohio State University sociologist Kristi Williams, editor of The Journal of Marriage and Family: Many of the problems experienced by divorced and widowed people may result not so much from the end of their marriage as from having relied too much on their spouse and thus failing to maintain social networks and the skills of self-reliance. In Professor Chopik\u2019s research, single older people with solid friendships, whether previously married or never married, were just as happy and healthy as married individuals.</p><p data-para-count="413" data-total-count="4643" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">A <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X1630789X#!" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;" class="">new study</a> by Daniel Carlson of the University of Utah and Ben Kail of Georgia State finds that the only segment of the population where never-married individuals consistently report worse psychological well-being than the married is among the poorest Americans. This is partly because at this income level, married couples actually maintain higher levels of social integration than their unmarried counterparts.</p><p data-para-count="431" data-total-count="5074" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">But as income rises, the advantages of married over never-married individuals evaporate and even reverse. While affluent never-married people continue to multiply their interactions with friends, neighbors and family, affluent married couples don\u2019t. This could well be why, at the highest income levels, married people are actually <em style="max-width: 100%;" class="">more</em> likely to report depressive symptoms than their equally affluent never-married counterparts.</p><p data-para-count="238" data-total-count="5312" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">Maintaining social networks and self-reliance after marriage does far more, however, than protect you against depression and ensure against the worst outcomes of divorce or widowhood. It can also enhance and even revitalize your marriage.</p><p data-para-count="352" data-total-count="5664" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">Many marriage counselors focus narrowly on improving partners\u2019 couple skills without taking into account how the marital relationship is affected by interactions with other people. Yet a 2017 study found that when people socialize more frequently with good friends, they not only <a href="https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/geronb/gbx046/3760165" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;" class="">report fewer depressive symptoms</a> themselves, but so do their partners.</p><p data-para-count="345" data-total-count="6009" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">People feel better when their spouses have good friendships, over and above the effects of their own friendships. In another example of how friendships can benefit a marriage, happily married wives who experience conflicts in their marriage generally feel closer to their husbands when they can discuss and reframe the issues with a good friend.</p><p data-para-count="551" data-total-count="6560" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">As the U.C.L.A. social psychologist Benjamin Karney told me, \u201c\u2018You are my everything\u2019 is not the best recipe for a happy marriage.\u201d Research his team will present next month at the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology found that having supportive friendships is associated with more satisfying marriages, even among couples already content with the support they get from each other. \u201cEven the happiest couples have something to gain by nurturing relationships with people outside their marriage,\u201d he said.</p><p data-para-count="271" data-total-count="6831" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">That\u2019s what\u2019s wrong with the pressure put on couples to plan the perfect date night. Aside from having sex, which most of us prefer to do without outsiders around, people enjoy doing activities with their partner and friends together more than with only their spouse.</p><p data-para-count="445" data-total-count="7276" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">Socializing with others provides some of the novelty and variety that leading social psychologists call \u201c<a href="http://sonjalyubomirsky.com/files/2012/09/Sheldon-Boehm-Lyubomirsky-2012.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;" class="">the spice of happiness</a>.\u201d It also allows partners to show off each other\u2019s strengths. My husband tells great stories, but I\u2019ve heard most of them and am not interested in hearing them again when we\u2019re by ourselves. When we\u2019re out with others, however, I urge him to tell away. Their positive reaction validates me as well as him.</p><p data-para-count="533" data-total-count="7809" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">Still, don\u2019t couples need date nights to renew their romantic passion? In <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pere.12058/abstract" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;" class="">one experiment</a>, researchers assigned some couples to spend time by themselves and have deeply personal conversations, while others were set up with a couple they had never met and told to initiate similar conversations. Afterward, all the couples reported greater satisfaction with their relationship, but couples who had been on the \u201cdouble date\u201d reported feeling <em style="max-width: 100%;" class="">more </em>romantic passion toward each other than those who had engaged only with each other.</p><p data-para-count="416" data-total-count="8225" style="max-width: 100%;" class="">So this Valentine\u2019s Day, if you\u2019re in the throes of early love, by all means plan a romantic evening alone with your partner. But if that first rush of passion has passed, you\u2019re probably better off going on a double date. And if you\u2019re without a romantic partner, why not hone your singlehood skills by organizing a dinner party with friends or inviting over a few people you\u2019d like to get to know better?</p><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Stephanie Coontz is the director of research and public education at the </span><a href="https://contemporaryfamilies.org/" style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145); font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">Council on Contemporary Families</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> and a historian at Evergreen State College.</span></div><div class=""><footer class="story-footer story-content" style="max-width: none; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 60px; width: 540px; position: relative; margin-top: 24px; clear: both; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: cheltenham; font-size: 16px;"><div class="story-meta"><p class="story-print-citation" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 0.9375rem; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">A version of this op-ed appears in print on February 11, 2018, on Page SR6 of the <span itemprop="printEdition" class="">New York edition</span> with the headline: For Wedded Bliss, Act Single. <span class="story-footer-links" style="display: inline-block;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);" class="">Today's Paper</a><span class="pipe" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 3px;">|</span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp839RF.html?campaignId=48JQY" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);" class="">Subscribe</a></span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></footer></div></div></div><div class="">
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