Happy Marriage Traits: What Your Relationship Needs To Survive

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By Stephen J. Johnson, Ph.D.Good Men Project MagazineUCLA's Family Studies Center researched 1,500 couples who had been together for five or more years and who acknowledged having a strong, close, deeply committed bond. The couples revealed six common characteristics:Read More... More on Marriage

Senh: A study of couples who have been together for five years. Really? Five years is consider long? Why don't study couples would have been together for 20-40 years; people who have been together for their entire lives. Five years is so short.

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