Happiness depends on her husband's happiness wife

The wife is happier, the more happiness experienced husband and other family members. To this obvious conclusion reached by researchers from the University of Michigan.

The level of happiness

American scientists have found a direct connection between level of happiness   Women married, and level of happiness their husbands. In English, there is even a saying "happy wife - happy life, "the validity of which science is now convinced. When that the scientists focused around older couple, medium older than 60 years.

The average duration of marriage these couples was 39 years old, and the couple asked a variety of issues that can assess their level of happiness. In particular, they were asked how often they quarrel with each other, how good feelings and mutual understanding needs. 24 hours before the meeting with researchers and volunteers began to lead diary, which recorded how happy they were at the time of travel shopping, performing household chores or watching TV.

It was found that in families where wife's happiness level was assessed as high as possible, and consider themselves happy their husbands. Most of the survey participants called themselves happy, considering level of happiness 5 of 6. In this case the men brought the marriage even more satisfaction than women. As authors of the study, happy wife trying to deliver more pleasant emotions to their own husbands, that the beneficial to them affected. But if a man is not very happily married, he prefers an This shut up, so that his wife sometimes does not know about this. (READ MORE)

Psychology

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