Marriage & Happiness - Pandemic Stress & Mental health

Most people believe that in order to be happy one needs to be married. What are your thoughts on this matter? Do you agree that married people are happier than those who are single? Please share your thoughts with us in the comments section. Michigan State University researchers conducted the first study of its kind to quantify the happiness of married, formerly married and single individuals at the end of their lives to find out just how much love and marriage played into the overall well being. They were surprised to find that people who remained single all their lives and those who had different relationship histories didn’t differ in how happy they were. This means that those who have ‘loved and lost’ are just as happy towards the end of life as those who ‘never loved at all’,” The experts, therefore, suggest, that if someone longs for a lifelong partner to start a family and build a happy life together, but that if that person is not completely happy to begin with, getting married won’t likely dramatically change it all. 2. Early results from another brand new study by Indiana University Bloomington professors on the COVID-19 pandemic's impact show that there is a significant number of mental health issues and instances of psychological aggression within relationships while people have had to quarantine in their homes. The experts found that they saw a lot of drinking and fighting in intimate-partner relationships, and that the pandemic in combination with social distancing does appear to create a very stressful situation, and an extremely high number of people are reporting having mental health issues, such as depression or anxiety. "For some people, the situation has resulted in problematic coping behavior." According to the findings, scores on the measures of depression, anxiety and stress among the COVID sample of the study, were substantially higher than of general community members during non-COVID times. Researchers are curious whether these were new instances of domestic violence or whether domestic violence had been in the relationship previously and had flared up while couples were isolating. #marriage #stress #covid19